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       <h2 id="writings-header">Writings</h2>
       <p>Sometimes I like to jot down ideas and drop them here.</p>
       <ul>
+        <li>
+          <a href="writings/how-i-write-some-articles-im-lazy-about.html" target="_blank"
+            rel="noopener noreferrer">How I write some articles I have a hard time getting started with</a>
+        </li>
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           <a href="writings/replacing-a-failed-disk-in-a-zfs-mirror.html" target="_blank"
             rel="noopener noreferrer">Replacing a Failed Disk in a ZFS Mirror</a>
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML>
+<html>
+
+<head>
+    <title>Pablo here</title>
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
+    <meta viewport="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../styles.css">
+</head>
+
+
+<body>
+    <main>
+        <h1>
+            Hi, Pablo here
+        </h1>
+        <p><a href="../index.html">back to home</a></p>
+        <hr>
+        <section>
+            <h2>How I write some articles I have a hard time getting started with</h2>
+            <p>
+                I have a lot of shower thoughts. Way more than I can handle. Many times I feel like some of them
+                would make for a nice piece on my webpage, or I should make a personal note out of. But often times
+                they won't catch me in the right place and time to sit down, focus, and type them out. You have to
+                figure out the key points, lay out a plan, think about what you want to say and how, type it all
+                out, work on the text... It burns some calories. And sometimes it's enough friction to kill the idea
+                entirely.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                Recently I found a set of AI tools that allow me to capture some of these ideas and lower the
+                friction to get them on ink. My goal is not to have the AI write things for me, but just to quickly
+                drop a pretty decent first draft with very little effort, on the spot. With this, I've happily
+                rescued many good ideas from getting by falling through the cracks before I even hit my desk (or
+                getting ignored because I don't have the energy to go through it all).
+            </p>
+            <h3>Step one: recording myself</h3>
+            <p>
+                I'm self-hosting an open source audio transcription app called
+                <a href="https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">scriberr</a>.
+                It's just a fancy little webpage where you can drop audio and get a transcript. The neat bit is that
+                it also allows you to simply record on the spot. I used to host
+                <a href="https://github.com/pluja/whishper" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Whishper</a>,
+                but you had to first record then upload a file. I really liked it, but sadly I found that was
+                enough friction when rushing on the phone to not use it. I can access scriberr from my laptop, my
+                desktop, my phone, from anywhere basically.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                So anytime I feel like it, I can pull out my phone and start ranting about whatever topic is on my
+                mind. The recording gets sent to my server back home, and scriberr transcribes the whole thing into
+                text automatically. Transcription itself takes a bit because I'm not using a GPU, but I'm not in a
+                rush usually since the important thing is just to get the ideas out of my brain and into text easily.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                The transcript that comes out is usually quite decent in terms of accuracy. I'd say around 95% of
+                what I say gets picked up perfectly. The whisper models also do pretty decent in different
+                languages, so I can record in whatever I feel like at each moment.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                What's not great, in case you've never used transcription tools, is that the output is just a long
+                stream of words. The model tries its best at punctuation, but it's rather crappy. And obviously, no
+                paragraphs. Plus, with unprepared, spontaneous ranting, structure tends not to be top notch either.
+                Definitely not article-grade text out of the box.
+            </p>
+            <h3>Letting an LLM clean it up</h3>
+            <p>
+                But hey, those are not issues now that we have LLMs! I have a little script that fetches the
+                transcript results from my server to my laptop. Once I have my raw transcript locally, I just pass
+                it on to Claude, with a little prompt saying something like: "This is a transcript of me talking
+                about this and that. Process it for me, I want the output to be like XYZ."
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                Sometimes I really just ask to have the transcript nicely formatted into paragraphs and proper
+                sentences, with the actual sentences being totally respected. Other times I already ask for some
+                restructuring of the ideas, so it's not just cleaning up the writing but actually shaping it into
+                something that resembles an article. It depends on how clear I was during my rant or what I'm really
+                planning to get out of it.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                After this bit, I'll either abandon the idea altogether because it wasn't as interesting as I felt
+                initially, or I'll really work properly in the text when I can and come up with something I'm happy
+                with. It will still take some desk time to get to a final result, but then the article is really my
+                writing and not a mix of my own slop with a layer of LLM slopification on top of it. I can't help
+                but think people who just copy paste LLM output and put their signature under it have little respect
+                for themselves and their reputation, and little love for the act of thinking and writing.
+            </p>
+            <h3>A great starter</h3>
+            <p>
+                And there you go. In just a few minutes, without having to focus deeply in front of a blank file, I
+                end up with a first version of my thoughts that I can already start polishing and thinking from. Not
+                all transcripts make it into clean texts in the end, but at least I ensure some of the ones which
+                would otherwise get lost do survive. The stuff that comes out of the LLM is not always great, to be
+                honest. Sometimes I'll change a lot of things from what I said in the audio. Sometimes I'll end up
+                adding a lot of stuff that I wasn't covering in my original rant. But the first draft helps me get
+                my thoughts out there and gives me something to begin with.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+                And that's often all I need.
+            </p>
+            <hr>
+            <p><a href="../index.html">back to home</a></p>
+        </section>
+    </main>
+
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