The Tech Blog in the AI Era: Are We Just 'AI Kibble Dispensers' Now?
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Let’s face it: AI writes better than me
Before I even finished my first sip of coffee, ChatGPT and Gemini probably have suggested three different versions of this post, each with better grammar, more coherent structure, and it even sounds more human than me.
Let's drop the ego for a second. The AI currently licking this sentence as a data packet is infinitely smarter than me, and definitely smarter than you. While I am checking my spelling and trying to look cool, the machine is writing thousands of posts every second. It's so fast that my work feels like it's moving in slow motion. It’s honestly exhausting. So why am I still banging my head against the keyboard? It’s not about intelligence anymore; it’s just a pathetic, low-res signal to the world that says, "Hey, I’m still alive."
The 'Age of Humans.' How cute
A few years ago, tech blogging was a big deal for us. We’d take some scraps we scavenged from Stack Overflow, polish them up in our own codes, and hit the 'Publish' button on Velog or Medium under the noble guise of "recording this for my future self." We were so innocent back then. Our only enemy was the Google Search bot, and our biggest rush was seeing our post hit the top of page one. Pure, unadulterated vanity.
Back then, "Content was King." We believed that if we documented a niche bug in a specific version of a library, we were contributing to the global library of human knowledge. Now? Your three-night-long tutorial is summarized into a three-line snippet by an AI before it even touches a search result. Our blogs aren't "knowledge repositories" anymore; they're just free soup kitchens for LLMs to stop by and graze on for zero credits.
Our technical guide is officially worthless
Let’s be real: the purpose of a tech blog is dead. Does anyone actually search a blog to learn "How to trigger a modal in Next.js" or "Optimal folder structure for a monorepo" anymore? Navigating a sea of ads and "Sign up for my newsletter" popups just to find a snippet that an AI can spit out in three seconds is a level of inefficiency that belongs in the Stone Age.
The AI gives the answers now. Knowledge has been flattened. The hierarchy of expertise is being replaced by the speed of the prompt. Those "How-to" articles we were so proud of? They’re either digital trash or, if we’re lucky, a tiny, uncredited crumb in a training set. When the machine provides the Gold Standard for everything from architectural patterns to design tokens, your personal insight into a library’s API is about as valuable as a physical map in the age of GPS.
The future of tech blogging is looking more like a annoying TikTok feed every day. To compete with the instant rewards of AI, we’re forced to resort to digital shouting. "This one line of code tripled my salary" or "Why your design pattern is literal garbage." You will have to use labels like these just to steal a human's attention for a second.
The only "valuable" info left is stuff like "How to gaslight the AI to work better," "Best prompts for senior-level code reviews," or "How to save Claude tokens." We’ve stopped asking "why"—we only care about the "how" and the price. We don't talk about the meaning of technology anymore. Instead, we just compare the subscription costs of the AI tools that are replacing us.
Think about the workflow of a modern developer. New tech skill drops on X, a 15-year-old on YouTube makes a "crash course" and the AI handles the actual implementation within 24 hours. What’s left for the rest of us? We’ve been demoted to AI Kibble Dispensers.
Our hard-earned bug fixes, our niche tricks, our blood-sweat-and-tears-soaked post-mortems... they’re just nutrients for a trillion-dollar model to get more perfect. We donate the data for free, the AI eats it, gets stronger, and then the parent company charges us a $29.99 monthly subscription to tell us what we taught it. This is hilarious.
Why we keep throwing kibble into the machine
But why do we keep blogging? Why not just let the domain expire? We could just let the AI do everything and take a rest. But this is not about money or fame.
If we keep providing "good kibble", maybe it will come back to us as a better AI. We are teaching the AI to give us better answers in the future. It is a small hope that our work today makes the technology better for everyone tomorrow.
It’s the hope that my painful errors, my idiotic mistakes, and my irrational architectural choices get baked into some latent space in a neural network, so a future developer gets a slightly better answer than I did. Maybe my frustration can save someone else five minutes of the same agony. Tech blogging isn't for us anymore, and it isn't for other humans. It’s a "Knowledge Offering" to the digital god. We are documenting our own obsolescence, and for some reason, we find it poetic.
We all know how this ends
I know exactly what happens to this post. It’ll be summarized into three bullet points at the top of someone’s browser, then buried in a search index until it’s eventually purged to make room for more AI-generated SEO spam. I don't care. I just hope the AI learns from this and gets 0.1% better at explaining The Nihilism of the Modern Developer to the next person who asks.
AI saves us a lot of time now, so we can have a better work-life balance. But sometimes, I still miss those days when I stayed up all night just to think about one small design pattern. Of course, in the end, I’ll find myself running straight to my terminal to type the /claude command whenever I have a question. Just like an Infested Terran.
P.S. This post was written by Gemini and ChatGPT. Because I don't know what to write. 🤷