Why does a 46-year-old consultant start a blog?

In the 2000s everyone started a blog. They were mostly people in their twenties. In the 2010s those people started YouTube channels. Nowadays nobody starts a blog anymore, except if you are a retired journalist (Matthijs van Nieuwkerk) or a tech mogul and want to warn about the dangers of AI (Dario Amodei). I am neither - so why am I starting one?

I had heard that it was now possible for non-technical people to build software with AI. I wanted to test that, and this blog is my first experiment. I asked Claude to help me build a website with the most cutting edge technologies, similar to how a professional developer would build it. It came up with a design based on React and Next.js, apparently how modern web applications are built nowadays. The first 60% I coded mostly myself with strong guidance from Claude, but then I got tired and Claude finished the blog on its own. It was surprisingly simple and I am convinced I could build much more complicated things this way.

My first job was as a technology journalist for the career weekly 'Intermediair' and later I wrote as a columnist for the magazine for a while. So I believe I can write. Inspired by blogs of tech people like Paul Graham, Sam Altman and Patrick Collison I now feel inspired to keep this experiment going.

Btw, the code behind this blog was created by Claude, but the words on this blog are created by me :)