AI Usage

See The AI Manifesto to learn more about why I created this page.

AI usage in building this site

This page is built by myself, with artisinal handcrafted code, and not vibecoded. It’s a hobby project and I like writing code and tinkering around. Programming is fun!

AI usage in writing content for this site

The content on this page is written by me, and the thoughts are mine, and not the thoughts of an AI. I use AI to proofread and improve the grammar of things I write. I’m not a native English speaker, and I don’t want people to struggle to read my thoughts.

I’m switching models from time to time, so I can’t point to one model that I’m always using. I always tell it to “just fix grammar, don’t change anything else”. I do not use it to translate posts (i.e. I don’t write them in German and let it translate to English). I write posts in English and then let an AI tell me grammatical issues. I don’t even copy-paste the improved post, and instead let the AI list me the issues and explain them, so I can type the improvements myself, because that’s how I can learn from it.

AI usage for images

Some posts have header images. They are usually AI-generated. Sometimes (but rarely) there are also small illustrations in the content that are AI-generated. These images exist to make a funny point or just be cute, to make posts visually more distinct from each other, and are just a design element.

How I use AI elsewhere

When I use AI for coding, for example at work, I usually handcraft the code structure by myself (functions, files, interfaces). I’m more happy with how I structure code, I can do it faster, and I enjoy doing it. I use AI to fill in the implementation details that I know it can do much faster than me. When I know that I can do a refactor or implementation faster, or just as fast as an AI, I just do it myself.

I’m not a fan of switching between many different parallel sessions because I do not believe that you can hold all of this context in your head, so it has a higher waste of money, energy and mental capacity.