This is inspired by the AI Manifesto.

Everything on this website is written by me, in my voice. No posts or pages are written in whole or in part by large language models. If in the future small subsections are written by AI, that will be explicitly noted in the page in question, as well as on this page.

I do use AI as part of my coding workflows, and as my recent posts show, that usage is increasing. I have even used AI to write helper scripts for management of this website behind the scenes (for e.g., improvements to the S3/CloudFront stack that delivers the website). I think it’s a valuable tool for a number of use cases. However, for a blog, I feel that posts written by AI would add no value to you as a reader compared to just…asking an AI chat tool to answer things for you.

I have recently started to use AI to proofread posts before publishing. The quality of this feedback beyond grammatical error correction is…mixed. But any feedback I do take, I write myself rather than allowing an agent to write. If I am accepting feedback beyond basic grammatical error correction, I will rewrite the relevant sections until it flows better rather than taking drop-in corrections (because, again, I don’t want AI voice, I want my own voice).