The AI Ghostwriter Experiment
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
Over the past few months, I ran an experiment on this blog. Balancing engineering projects, open-source contributions, and university means deep-focus writing is a luxury I rarely have. I wanted to test a hypothesis: Can a developer leverage LLMs to fully automate content creation without losing technical depth? I launched my "Engineering in the Wild" & "System Design" series to find out. Here is what I learned from letting AI ghostwrite my blog, and why I’m officially pivoting my strategy. The Workflow It wasn’t just mindless prompting.