On writing and LLMs
by Eugene Venger, That one guy
God, it's 2025 and what a roller-coaster these past few years have been for me.
War in Ukraine. Personal stuff. Emigration. So much changed, but one thing caught me off guard: I lost my drive to write.
From 2022 onwards, I felt completely demotivated. LLMs exploded onto the scene, personal crises hit, the world felt darker with war. But especially LLMs. Writing suddenly felt... pointless. Why put effort into words when a machine could spit out paragraphs in seconds?
But here's the thing about hype — it faded. And as it did, I start to see clearly again.
LLMs are prediction machines.
They write average text based on what they've seen a million times before.
They are good at polishing.
But crappy at the insight, direction, vision.
Now it's 2025 and I feel that familiar energy again — that SO EXCITED energy I thought I'd lost. It feels... exciting.
LLMs aren't going anywhere. But neither is the human need to make sense of our messy, beautiful, chaotic lives through words.
That's something no algorithm can touch.