AI Usage

As of November 25th, 2025, this is how I've used generative "AI" tools.

On This Blog

I have never used any generative "AI" services to write posts or code for this site.¹ Neither am I hosting any images generated by "AI."

I do regularly use Kagi's LLM-powered proofreading tool to find and correct typos, grammar mistakes, and to catch repeated words. I apply suggested fixes by hand and still use my own judgement to occasionally go against suggestions.

In addition, I have used Kagi Assistant to help with structuring my review of Thumbs downBLAME!. I gave it my first draft, which I was very unhappy with, and asked for a bulleted list of how to order my points. Based on this outline, I rewrote the review into the published version, which still contains only my own words and thoughts.

Elsewhere

Apart from this blog, I have published one other project that used "AI." Together with a friend, we used Suno v3 to generate a number of songs and used WyvernMix XL v1.8 to generate an album cover. I then built a showcase website for the album, with assistance from chatGPT. The model sucked, but so did my web skills, which explains why the code is so bad.

I once used Claude Code to generate a PR for a project which itself had been heavily vibe-coded. I marked it clearly and reviewed every change by hand.

Apart from these two cases I have not, and would not, in future, publish or contribute LLM-generated code anywhere.

Writing About It

I have written about "AI" four (and a half) times:

The first was in the summer of 2023, about using chatGPT to dialogue about a difficult-to-grasp subject. I'm mixed now on the point I was making and have hidden the post from my feed.

Later that year I wrote the flash fiction story Clara, which is cringe because it's the first thing I've written since school, not because of anything to do with "AI."

At the start of 2025 I wrote about a study on the impact of gen "AI" on critical thinking.

The half time was when I wrote about Kagi, which offers some LLM-supported functionality. I've been using it for two years now and will occasionally use their quick answer or assistant, but it has never tied into any of my writing.

Finally, after trying Claude for a month I wrote about that.