I'm starting to think that LLMs may be better for the web. Not the corporate, espionage one - this one is pretty much dead. But for small web. A huge part of it are blogs written by tech people for tech people. They tend to be boring academic. They give recipes or technical deep dive. This has is very important place in their own context, but this is not the web I grew up with. And those articles become mostly useless. If it's something highly niche - sure. But for something generic? You can get the same soulless explanation from an LLM, just with better grammar. I see this in my reviews - an LLM could have written them better. Currently I don't feel any itch to write anything like this or to read things like this.

But there are also articles only the author could have written. Ones that come from personal experience, ones written in their distinct style. It's no longer "how to do this thing" or "how is this thing". Again, I feel no need to write them. What I want to write is things about me - so the shift to "how did I that thing". A more personal web. Ruben has his style (which is a 4 letter sentence), Tim has an amazing intro on how to use Mail, and so on. Those sites and texts are distinctly their. I hope there will be less orange-site style texts written, which you could copy to any other site (or even yahoo) and not even notice. More MWL, less O'Reily.

As a complete side note: I try to write better technically.