# Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear

DevFeed: [Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/translating-blog-posts-with-gpt-4-or-on-hope-and-fear-20632.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://antirez.com/news/141>)

Published: 2024-01-09T21:28:15Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Antirez](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/antirez.md>)

Topics: [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [gpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpt.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [writing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing.md>)

## AI overview

The author explains a writing process focused on quickly publishing blog posts and discusses translating an Italian post about LLMs and programming into English with GPT-4. They report that the translated result was better written while taking a comparable amount of time.

## Source excerpt

My usual process for writing blog posts is more or less in two steps: 1. Think about what I want to say for weeks or months. No, I don't spend weeks focusing on a blog post, the process is exactly reversed: I write blog posts about things that are so important to me to be in my mind for weeks. 2. Then, once enough ideas collapsed together in a decent form, I write the blog post in 30 minutes, often without caring much about the form, and I hit "publish". This process usually works writing the titles of the sections as I initially just got the big picture of what I want to say, and then filling the empty paragraphs with text. Why I take step 2 so lightly? Because I got other stuff to do, and if blogging would take more than 30/60 minutes I would rather not blog at all, or blog less, or suffer doing it: all things I want to avoid at all costs. Blogging is too important to let it go. It's better, for me, to give up on the form. At the same time, this is why many of my blog posts, regardless of the content that may be more or less informative, more or less useful, are generally badly written. I hope that the fact I can write well enough in my mother language in some way it is still visibile in my English posts, but I have the feeling that the extremely limited vocabulary I possess, the grammar errors, the sentence construction that oftentimes I just take from Italian and turn into English, all those limits irremediably damage the reading experience. This is why, for the first time, to write my blog post about LLMs and programming I tried a different approach: I wrote the post in Italian and I translated it to English using GPT-4. The result is a much better blog post than usually, I believe, and the total time to write it was comparable to writing it in English, because writing in Italian in a bit faster, and this compensated the time needed to cut & paste the sections in GPT-4, wait for the output, check that it matched the Italian meaning, and doing a few corrections