<antirez>
6 hours ago
- The author's blog writing process involves two steps: thinking about topics for weeks or months, then writing and publishing in 30 minutes without much concern for form.
- Blogging is prioritized to be quick (under 30-60 minutes) to avoid abandoning it, leading to poorly written English posts due to limited vocabulary, grammar errors, and Italian-influenced sentence construction.
- For a post on LLMs and programming, the author tried writing in Italian and translating to English with GPT-4, resulting in a better post with a personal voice, comparable time, and detection as human-written.
- The author is uncertain about future blogging methods, fearing loss of English writing confidence, but notes their true voice may emerge in translated posts using their full native lexical ability.
- The choice available in 2024 evokes both hope for human possibilities with talking machines and fear that AI may discourage hard tasks like learning new languages.