Why create a blog in the age of LLMs?

I'm creating a new blog in the age of LLMs, where many seemingly reasonable words can be generated in a few seconds. So what's the point of creating a blog and writing now?

Reason 1: Making ideas coherent

Writing requires making my "ideas" coherent. I put ideas in quotes because I have a lot of half-formed ideas that I keep coming back to when my mind wanders but these ideas don't fully develop and it feels like I'm spinning my wheels. By writing I'm trying to break this cycle and make progress past my initial thoughts.

Reason 2: Putting myself out there

Self promotion is something I avoid but need to do. I quit my high paying job and I'm an independent software developer building apps. If I want to continue being an independent software developer I need to eventually make money. I need to get used to self promotion. Writing about things I care about seems like an easy way to start.

Reason 3: Giving back

I think I have some useful ideas and I've benefitted so much from other blogs and open source that it feels good to give back, even if it's a little.

Do I plan to use LLMs in my writing?

Everything will be written by me personally. There will be no LLM generated posts. I will not use LLMs to generate ideas for posts either. I do however plan to use LLMs for research and formatting my words into html. What I definitely won't do is ask it to make my writing more punchy (chatgpt asked if I wanted that). I'm not even going to ask it to fix my grammar because the suggestions it gives do remove the authenticity that a human did write this. If there is anything interactive, I will use coding agents to assist in building them. I'm personally not against LLMs but using LLMs to write for me would undermine many of the stated reasons this blog exists.