--- title: Do people still genuinely care about technical articles ? description: AI tools are changing how developers learn by providing fast, direct answers instead of reading long-form articles. This raises questions about whether... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/do-people-still-genuinely-care-about-technical-articles--xjdribzgj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Do people still genuinely care about technical articles ? | daily.dev og:description: AI tools are changing how developers learn by providing fast, direct answers instead of reading long-form articles. This raises questions about whether... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/do-people-still-genuinely-care-about-technical-articles--xjdribzgj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xjDRiBzgJ.png og:image:alt: Do people still genuinely care about technical articles ? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Do people still genuinely care about technical articles ? **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 1 min read · 6 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary AI tools are changing how developers learn by providing fast, direct answers instead of reading long-form articles. This raises questions about whether technical writing still matters, or if we're trading depth and understanding for speed. While AI excels at quick solutions, human-written articles offer context, battle-tested experience, real engineering trade-offs, and accountability that AI cannot replicate. The future likely involves using AI for acceleration while preserving long-form writing for depth, judgment, and engineering maturity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@khauma** · 3 upvotes > I don't think anything has changed. There are folks who just want the answers and skip to the end and others who are genuinely interested. TLDR was created for this very reason and we have had that long before AI became a buzzword. Radio, Television, and the internet didn't destroy books, just like Spotify didn't kill vinyl. There will always be people who appreciate the context and the process. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Technical Writing in the AI Age](https://daily.dev/posts/technical-writing-in-the-ai-age-8nv7rdfjb) · CSS-Tricks · 58 upvotes · 4 comments - [Why Writing Code Is Becoming the Easy Part of Software Engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/why-writing-code-is-becoming-the-easy-part-of-software-engineering-t5jcq3uro) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/to-those-who-fired-or-didn-t-hire-tech-writers-because-of-ai-wd4g4umhg) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/do-people-still-genuinely-care-about-technical-articles--xjdribzgj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Do people still genuinely care about technical articles ?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/do-people-still-genuinely-care-about-technical-articles--xjdribzgj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/do-people-still-genuinely-care-about-technical-articles--xjdribzgj"},"datePublished":"2026-02-17T15:27:39.600Z","dateModified":"2026-02-17T16:43:51.701Z","description":"AI tools are changing how developers learn by providing fast, direct answers instead of reading long-form articles. 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There are folks who just want the answers and skip to the end and others who are genuinely interested. TLDR was created for this very reason and we have had that long before AI became a buzzword. Radio, Television, and the internet didn’t destroy books, just like Spotify didn’t kill vinyl. There will always be people who appreciate the context and the process.","datePublished":"2026-02-18T21:34:39.878Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/xjDRiBzgJ#c-MA5DcNBkR","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kahlil Wallace","url":"https://daily.dev/khauma","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--QvppE9Ip--/f_auto/v1767378558/avatars/avatar_7eQFeSQRDx0muV3n92gxT?_a=BAMAK+ZW0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}}]} ```