AI Manifesto

TLDR: Some AI, but not for writing.

Writing

No.

I have started using the “telltale” — (em dash) in my own day-to-day writing, mainly to replace my overuse of brackets for aside thoughts (which I still use, probably a bit too much). I do use AI to proofread and make grammar/spelling suggestions as a final-pass before publishing, since VS code lacks anything more than spell checking, but I often disregard the suggestions, especially if it suggests changing my writing style!

AI Coding Assistance

Yes, but more as a glorified find and replace agent.

For example, the graphs on the pilot page were all conceptualised and coded by myself (before AI/agents were really a thing), but when I overhauled the API backend with a new OpenAPI spec, I pointed Claude to the new OpenAPI spec, and asked it to update all of the charts to use the new data formats/structures. It got it right — first try — and now my graph components are type-safe. Huge time saving for a tedious task.

Image Generation

Yes.

I kind of suck at drawing, and for thumbnail generation, I will use the latest-and-greatest image generator of the time to create some fairly generic looking thumbnails to avoid my web pages just being a block of text.