Michael Lynch 总结软件博客写作的反模式：别用 AI 写千篇一律的文章

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

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Michael Lynch 撰文总结软件博客的常见反模式，包括开篇绕圈子、误判读者已有知识、假设读者读过旧文、过度正式，以及用链接代替术语解释。他强调用自己说话的方式写作，认为开发者把写作交给 AI 后，软件博客正变得平淡同质，读者渴望有个性的文字。

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7th October 2026 - Link Blog

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging (via) Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality.

He also warns against overreliance on links as an excuse not to explain terminology. This one hurt! I do this all the time, but I have a nagging suspicion that almost nobody ever clicks on them.

This point about using your own voice is crucial:

Beginner software bloggers suffer from a mass delusion that you have to write in a stiff, overly formal way for people to take you seriously [...]

Just write the way you talk.

With so many developers delegating their writing to AI, software blogging is becoming bland and homogenous. Readers are hungry for writing with personality.