Why I built this site, was it worth it, and some thoughts on AI

This is probably my third or fourth personal site. Every time I had the same plan: fill it up, start a blog, write about the bugs I hit and how I fixed them. The plan was always there. The posts never were.

This time I will. I don\

I think so. I genuinely enjoy explaining something or walking through an experience, but that doesn\

Over the last few years AI got pushed so hard into everyday life that people now ask it things they used to decide on their own. What to wear, how to word an email, whether to take a job. All of it goes to a chatbot now. Whether blaming AI for that is fair is debatable. Humans have always leaned toward the easy path, minimum effort, shortcuts. AI just made it frictionless.

Something else bugs me: every sentence from an AI company CEO gets treated like a prophecy. "By 2030 X will happen" and people act like it\

And keep writing code. Stay curious about how systems actually work, how pieces connect, what breaks when you change one thing. AI can spit out an answer. Asking "why does it work like that" is still on you.

Whenever this topic comes up, I think of a scene from I, Robot. Spooner is grilling Sonny:

Bu aslında üçüncü ya da dördüncü sitem. Her seferinde aynı niyet: siteyi doldur, blog aç, karşılaştığım hataları ve çözüm yollarını yaz. Plan hep vardı, yazı hiç gelmedi.

Bu sefer yapacağım. "Kim okuyacak ki, ne anlamı var?" diye bir kaygım yok. Okuyan olursa iyi, olmazsa da yazmaya devam ederim.

Bence evet. Bir tecrübe anlatırken ya da bir şey öğretirken gerçekten keyif alıyorum ama bunun bana doğrudan bir artısı yok. Yazmanın var. Yazarken kendimi sorguluyorum: gerçekten böyle mi, başka türlü de olabilir mi, bir şeyi atlıyor muyum? Bu sorgulama beni geliştiriyor; en azından bana öyle geliyor.