I have, since very late December and into all of January so far, been writing like a madman. Not because I’m mad in any sense of the word, but because there’s something inside driving my creativity with regards to the written word. Not software development, but the literal written word that flows through my mind and out of my fingertips and into every post on this blog. I can’t give you a definitive answer to why this is happening. I can say it doesn’t appear to be letting up and for me that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

Part of this flood of writing is traceable to a personal decision I made around Christmas that I would write about anything that crossed my consciousness horizon. Anything, especially if I experienced it. In the past I’ve been far too selective about subject matter, but not anymore. I think it’s finally sunk in that anything can be the subject of a post or story if you let it. By stopping myself from being so “picky” the floodgates have opened for me.

I’m sure a lot of this will read like crap. So be it. I’d rather it be human-generated crap than AI generated crap. I guess in a way this burst of writing creativity is my response to the AI LLM’s ability to create seemingly human-written content. I suppose if you read enough original written content and then have your machines mine steal that content from the entire internet for “training content,” that the AI software will regurgitate writing that seems plausible at first glance.

That’s not for me. If there are mistakes in my writing, they’re mine and mine alone. Bad prose, misspellings, grammar errors, syntax errors, too many commas, whatever. It’s all me and all mine. And that’s the way it should be.

More to come…