Why bother writing blogposts in 2026?

I’ve been wanting to build something like this website for a long time now, but never found the right moment or reason to do so. I thought I wanted to simply make my voice heard online, like I saw many other people around me doing. However, and after giving it some thought, I think it might just be a desire to have some sort of digital footprint with the added bonus of a creative outlet.

Addressing the title of this post, and connecting with what I was just talking about, it’s crazy to me that I created this website and customized it to my liking without any outside human help. Even 5 years ago that would have been unfathomable. I would’ve needed to either:

Now, with the help of your LLM of choice (Claude Sonnet for me) and some spare hours from your day, you can be guided through the process of creating something like this from scratch. From the architecture and tool selection (where to host, which platform to use, which programming language, etc.) all the way to the actual coding and building.

I explained Claude what I wanted and gave it some examples, and it ran me through my options, outlining the pros and cons of each. I chose to go with the no-frills option of having a local repository on my machine synced to GitHub and hosted on Cloudflare pages, where the domain I use happens to be registered. Hugo is my static site generator that, whenever I make changes and push them to Github, turns all of the markdown files in my repository into the HTML you are viewing right now. Any style changes I wanted to make, Claude wrote CSS code for me to add.

All of this then begs the question: if AI was able to do all of this for me, I might as well just give it my unorganized thoughts and let it write the most compelling and engaging posts possible, right? Certainly that is what many people online are choosing to do, causing the term “AI slop” to be coined. I’ve always deeply appreciated analog things, from books and mechanical watches, to vinyl records and film photography. I think writing falls in that same category.

There is something truly unique about the process of unorganized thoughts generated by synapses in our brains undergoing the process of being captured in paper through ink or digital screens through keystrokes, and read and sometimes understood by other humans. I don’t think that’s a good enough answer to the question I posed at the beginning of the previous paragraph, but I will try to revisit it throughout the subsequent posts I will write here. I’m not sure I will find a solid answer, but maybe that isn’t the point.

Just to close out this post (that now reads back like truly unorganized thoughts, I apologize for that), I leave you with this idea I saw this week: “If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort”. I certainly had a rough time writing this post unassited by AI (asking myself how to spell unphantomable or translating some spanish words to english), but I hope you enjoyed my human effort in exchange for your human attention.

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