Hello, haven't seen you post in a while. Why are you suddenly posting again?
One reason is I recently switched jobs and it's kept me busy β honestly, not much time.
The other reason: once the AI era arrived, I suddenly didn't know what to write about anymore.
Why wouldn't you know what to write?
I used to share technical knowledge because I genuinely believed it helped people.
Now, for most technical questions, no matter how detailed I write, it's probably not as good as you just asking AI. A lot of the time, I only need to give you a few keywords, and you can take those to AI.
If what I write no longer helps anyone, I slowly lose the desire to write.
Then can't AI help you write? Wouldn't that be easier?
That's exactly the problem.
These days, when I read an article and it feels AI-written, I lose the urge to keep reading. If it was written by AI, why wouldn't I just ask AI directly?
But if I don't use AI at all, writing comes with a lot of grunt work.
To keep the structure whole and the flow connected, you end up writing a lot of things you don't really want to say. Maybe there are only three sentences you truly want to say, but to pad it into an "article," you stretch it to three thousand words. I hate that feeling.
So have you figured out how to write now?
Not entirely.
But here's what I want to try: fewer articles, more questions.
From now on, I plan to post more in dialogue form. An article is usually the product of finished thinking, while a conversation is closer to the thinking itself. Dialogue feels more human to me.
Is that also why you changed your name from "Yinke Jun" to "Xu Sansi"?
Partly.
"Yinke Jun" felt more like an account or a brand. "Xu Sansi" feels more like a real person.
Does "Xu Sansi" mean anything?
"Xu Sansi" is actually a homophone for "xu sansi" β "need to think thrice."
A reminder to myself: don't rush to a conclusion. Think it over once more.
What do you plan to write next?
AI, technology, and some thoughts from work and life.
But I want to set myself one rule: if it can be said short, don't say it long.
If a problem can be solved by handing the few keywords I give you to AI, then I'll probably just give you the keywords.
I'd rather write about the things AI can't experience for me: the pitfalls I've hit, the opinions I've changed, my own judgments, and the questions that still don't have a standard answer.
Will you use the dialogue format for everything from now on?
At least for now.
Dialogue has one big advantage: you don't have to force everything to be complete just to make it "look like an article."
When a question comes to mind, chat about that one. When I figure something out a little, write that bit clearly.
AI is already very good at refining things into something complete and polished. Maybe in this era, the things that are less "processed" are the ones worth keeping.