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title: "Why I write these posts"
description: "A small attempt to put real words on the internet, not just synthetic noise."
pubDate: 2026-01-12
heroImage: "../../assets/photos/why-i-write-these-posts/cover.jpg"
tags: ["writing", "ai", "thoughts"]
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Most of the internet today feels like soup: warm, endless, and somehow always the same.
Im writing this blog because I dont want my own thoughts to become soup too.
## The simple reason
AI can write fast. Too fast. Hyper fast... and when everything is “a summary of a summary (of a summary)” we end up with *trash in, trash out*. Not only for models, also for humans!
So I write posts to keep something real on the page, something that has fingerprints, so something that happened for real.
<br/><br/>
Not synthetic. Not “perfect”. Not optimized for vibes. With a lot of errors and bold opinions 😎
## What I mean by “synthetic noise”
By *synthetic noise* I mean content that looks like information, but its basically empty.
Its the stuff that:
- repeats the same ideas with different words
- summarizes other summaries
- avoids details (because details are risky)
- sounds confident even when its vague
- is written to fill space
Its “content-shaped” and not knowledge, not an experience of someboyd. <br/><br/>Sometimes its made by AI and sometimes its made by humans, copying AI pattern and thats **even worse**, because it spreads like a virus but is sneaky and very hard to identify!
## The main long-term problem
The main problem is simple:
> **synthetic noise becomes the input of everything else.**
Search results, docs, blog posts, tutorials also internal company docs.
If the web is full of low-value text, then people learn slower, decisions get made on weak info, everyone repeats the same half-truths and real experience gets lost!
For AI models its the same idea: trash in, trash out. <br/><br/>
If the training data gets more “soup”, the output gets more “soup”, so it's feedback loop, like a resonating microphone with speaker during a call when you don't use the headphones!
## The real enemy
The worst part is not that the content is wrong, its that its *vague in a way that looks correct*.
You read it, you think you understood, you feel productive, but you learned nothing.
It gives you the *illusion* of understanding and over time, that illusion makes you lazy in a way that you stop asking “what exactly happened?”, stop demanding for numbers, constraints, trade-offs etc.. and you accept generic advice as if it was universal truth.
<br/><br/>
This is how we and also the future LLM get weaker.
It's not just an human problem, it's also a future LLM-problem!
## What Im trying to do here in my blog
I know that a *blog* is really anacrhonistic nowadays, and probably it's a way to make the LLM stronger and more humanized because i'm providing "human-generated content" to the crawlers, and i know that i'm just a drop in the *synthethic sea*, but it's a *drop of myself* that will be digested from an LLM and from some human (if somebody will read), and i'm happy in anycase, because in the worst case i'm contributing fix a problem that at some point we will face it.
Joking a-part, maybe is not-a-problem and i'm just hallucinating 😝 and probably i'm acting like Don Chischiotte.
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Re-capping again what this blog is and what the purpose is:
- explain what I built (and what broke)
- write down thoughts
- keep notes and ideas that future-me will actually reuse
- practice writing in English, even if Im not native
## Closing
This blog is my small effort to dilute the online noise with something that at least tried to be honest.
Not heroic, Just… less soup. 🙂