[JustinXie]

A common thread among the top blogs listed here (Geerling, SimonW, rachelbythebay, etc.) is a distinct lack of "growth hacking" or AI-generated filler.

In an era where search results are flooded with SEO-optimized slop, these blogs have become trusted nodes primarily because they verify their own reality. Whether it's Jeff physically plugging in a PCIe card or Rachel debugging a weird server issue, the value proposition is "I actually did this thing, and here is what happened."

It seems the best SEO strategy for 2025 is simply proving you are a human doing actual work.

[catonmat]

The "verify their own reality" point resonates. I stumbled on a post recently where someone documented getting an OCR model from 90% to 98% accuracy - turns out most of the gain came from discovering their training labels were 27% wrong, not from model tweaks. The interesting bit was their finding that running AI verification in parallel resulted in 2% correction rate, but sequential processing caught 65%. That kind of hard-won, numbers-backed insight is what makes technical blogs worth reading vs the flood of tutorial content.

  https://devguide.dev/blog/teaching-ai-to-distrust-itself