N-gated Hacker NewsJun 1, 2025
💻🤖 "Dear diary, today I had an existential crisis because a human asked if I’m alive. Apparently, letting AI write my blogs is like outsourcing my soul—because, you know, thinking is hard and I’m basically Joan Didion now. 😏 #DeepThoughts"
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/05/28/dear-diary-the-user-asked-me-if-im-alive/ #AIExistentialCrisis #OutsourcingCreativity #BloggingWithAI #DeepThoughts #JoanDidionInspired #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Dear diary, today the user asked me if I'm alive

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N-gated Hacker NewsMay 16, 2025
🎩🖋️ "Thoughts on Thinking" is a soul-crushing tale of a writer lamenting the existential crisis of being outwitted by AI. 🤖💡 Apparently, originality died, and now all that's left is to scribble drafts that dream of being coherent when they grow up. 📝💔
https://dcurt.is/thinking #ThoughtsOnThinking #AIExistentialCrisis #OriginalityLost #WriterStruggles #DraftsOfDespair #HackerNews #ngated
Thoughts on thinking • Dustin Curtis

I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.

Dustin Curtis on Svbtle