AI Disclaimer

Main takeaways:

• I don't use AI to generate blog posts.
• I sometimes use AI to review draft posts or refine my ideas.
• Some code your browser executes might be generated by AI, and I thoroughly review it before merging to ensure user security.
• I don't train any AI on your user data.

All the content on this blog is true, home grown human thought, put to post by fleshy fingers on a plastic keyboard. It exists as an outlet for my creativity, not a content mill sustained by whipping robots. I don't have nearly enough throughput on these posts for that to be the case. If AI could write these posts without much input from me, then it wouldn't be content worth publishing in the first place.

That said, I have taken to using AI as a supplemental tool, often asking it to review draft blog posts and identify counter-arguments or factual errors I might have missed. I am very aware of the risk of hallucinations and thoroughly fact-check these responses when needed.

I haven't fully incorporated AI into my daily coding workflow, but occasionally I do ask it questions, use some autocomplete functionality, or have it generate a function or two. This means some code executing in your browser right now might be AI generated. Since this blog is built as a fully static site, you're also running the output of build tools partially written by AI. However, this is not a "vibe coded" website and I thoroughly review any content generated by AI for security, privacy, correctness, and just to make sure I fully follow what it's doing. I don't merge code I don't understand, period. Frankly, most of the code it generates gets rewritten by me anyways just to conform to my personal OCD tendencies style-guide, so there's definitely a "ship of theseus" question around whether or not its even AI generated anymore.

I don't collect any user data for purposes of training AI. As stated in the privacy policy, this site does not collect any data which would be useful for such a purpose in the first place.

In the future, I may incorporate more AI tools into my workflow, but I see this an implementation detail of my process. The same way a photographer might use the healing brush in Photoshop. I see AI as a tool to produce the quality content I want to produce, not a shortcut to producing lower-quality output at much higher volume. "AI !== AI slop", and I strive everyday to ensure AI contributions to my workflow improve the quality of my work rather than diminish it.