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The Diary That Talked Back

2025-03-11 20:29 +0100 - 2 min read

Mood: 7/10

It happened again. I put off writing in my diary all day, only to speedrun it in the evening. Honestly, I’m way too forgiving with myself. I ignored the “opt-out” rule I set on Sunday, and as a result, I lost a big chunk of today’s time. I’m really tired of this lifestyle. Tomorrow will be different, I promise.

Yesterday, I shipped another keyboard, this time to California. It’s such a joy to realize people use and enjoy something you’ve created. I’ll be brave enough to say that it’s probably one of the greatest feelings ever. It gives you a really deep sense of purpose and the motivation to keep going.

The day before yesterday, I had a fascinating idea. I combined my entire diary into one file and fed it to several LLMs. I asked them to analyze it deeply and give me some ideas, patterns, blind spots, tips, and so on. Honestly, I was shocked by the results. I wasn’t expecting to get so many insights. I tried it with Deepseek R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Both performed impressively, but Gemini’s response felt warmer and had a certain “humanity” to it, to the point where I even felt a bit uncomfortable. It’s just so weird to observe such good understanding and support, to the degree that it seems like the person knows me better than I do, and then remembering that the write-up was generated by a big word prediction algorithm. What an insane time we’re living in.