By the end of 2020 I felt the urge to write, and I started a small blog visible only from the company intranet. In 2022 I decided to publish some of those articles on the internet, and I translated them into Spanish, so that my mum could read them.
Writing in the age of AI
I am motivated again to share what I am learning, or to collect it so I don’t forget. And in an age when AI tools can summarise a book in seconds and can generate high quality text, why bother writing?
I gave myself two reasons.
On one hand, writing, as the action, makes me reflect, finding the right words and articulating my thoughts. It is a good exercise for me to improve my thinking.
On the other hand, the product, the posts I produce, may be useful to me to revisit what I thought, may be useful to others, and even to AI tools that only regurgitate content written by humans.
About what?
I am not going to be short on topics. I still read a lot, experiment with AI and code, and I am back to study at the University. I have a few posts already drafted and I don’t understand writing as a routine or a challenge that I have to do with certain cadence, but as an opportunity.
A comic-like speech bubble with ‘Hello’ inside
Choosing a language
Considering that I am the only audience I expect (and maybe my mother), I have to pick one language from the three I, more or less, can use: Catalan, Spanish and English. Should I choose? I’ve decided to configure the website in a way that there is going to be content in each of these languages and I will allow myself to write in the language I feel is convenient. I’ve configured the website with buttons to choose content in only one language or all content mixed together.
However, this explanation is going to be available in the three languages and we’ll see what else happens.
Toni Tassani - 28 February 2026