# Why Writing Still Matters in the Age of Generative AI

DevFeed: [Why Writing Still Matters in the Age of Generative AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-the-point-38427.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://khmylov.com/2022/12/whats-the-point/>)

Author: Andrew Khmylov

Published: 2022-12-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Despite the odds](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/despite-the-odds.md>)

Topics: [Generative AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/generative-ai.md>), [ChatGPT](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chatgpt.md>), [RSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-ai.md>), [writing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writing.md>)

## AI overview

This personal essay considers whether blogging still has value amid social media, short attention spans, and generative AI. The author concludes that writing remains valuable for organizing thoughts, supporting well-being, managing anxiety, and reflecting on life and career.

## Source excerpt

It has occurred to me this week that I haven't written anything here for almost 2 years now. Why's that? Don't I have anything important to say anymore? Is blogging still a thing today? Back in 2010 and a few years afterwards having a blog was almost mandatory. Most of my friends and acquaintances with some online presence did that, everyone was fighting over the best blog platform, static generators were evolving like crazy, and then everything just fell off, perhaps with RSS tragedy, and the shift of content platforms into walled gardens of social media platforms. With major life-changing events happening around, political crisis, war, economic downturn, giving up on blogging is the easiest thing to do, as also noted by others. Besides, the average reader (myself included) has such a short attention span these days that expecting anyone to read a few paragraphs of your text is setting up yourself for disappointment. Finally, the recent advances in generative AI, like ChatGPT make you wonder "what's the point to write anything?" even more. We may already live in the world imagined in MGS2. High chance that the content you consume is auto-generated and you don't even notice. The machine would've generated this particular text much faster than me[1]. The value of any new human-made text is close to zero, and nobody will spend their time reading your stupid blog posts anymore[2]. That's all valid thoughts, but they are focused on the outside world. If I look inside my personal needs, I still find enormous value in writing. To me it's probably one of the most important well-being techniques. Taking memory dump notes and transferring the rushing half-formed and sometimes irrational thoughts from my head into a structured physical medium cleans up my polluted brain cache and helps me fight the anxiety. I've also been thinking about my career and previous life path in general recently, and I suspect that methodical and rigorous writing is one of the most significant reaso