--- title: Thirteen years of blogging | daily.dev description: Vlad Mihalcea marks thirteen years of blogging with a personal retrospective covering blog traffic decline as LLMs replace search-driven learning, his growth... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/thirteen-years-of-blogging-62nrxdsr6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Thirteen years of blogging | daily.dev og:description: Vlad Mihalcea marks thirteen years of blogging with a personal retrospective covering blog traffic decline as LLMs replace search-driven learning, his growth... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/thirteen-years-of-blogging-62nrxdsr6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/62nrXDSr6.png og:image:alt: Thirteen years of blogging 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. # Thirteen years of blogging **[Vlad Mihalcea](https://daily.dev/sources/vladmihalcea)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Vlad Mihalcea marks thirteen years of blogging with a personal retrospective covering blog traffic decline as LLMs replace search-driven learning, his growth as a writer despite weak early language skills, and a defense of authentic human writing over AI-generated text. He shares stats: 632 articles, 25 million views, 13.3 million visitors, and growing X (93.8k) and LinkedIn (87.7k) followings. He also recaps a new High-Performance Spring Persistence video course, a 3-day Spring Boot training, Hypersistence Optimizer updates supporting Hibernate ORM 7.2/7.3, and his PhD research on automatic data performance tuning. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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