How I use AI
When reading my articles, you might rightfully ask if anything is written by AI. I certainly question that when reading blogs. Simply put:
Every article is written by me, not AI. I write to learn.
I don't have any incentive to generate articles with AI. I write things I learn and find interesting, hoping that others also find them interesting.
So no AI?
No, I definitely use AI. It's a huge part of my daily workflow.
Programming
I haven't written a single line of code by hand since December 2025. That's after ~15 years of programming.
I use Claude Code at home and OpenCode at work.
Diagrams (kinda)
Often I'll draw diagrams by hand in Excalidraw. Then once I am happy with them, I have AI turn them into Mermaid.js diagrams. Or I might describe a flow and then have AI turn it into a sequence diagram.
Editing
When I am happy with a first draft of a post, I usually open up Claude Code or Codex, and ask something along the lines of:
You are an expert editor, given the following article, identify:
- Things you believe to be false, explain why with sources
- Things you believe to be ambiguous and open for misinterpretation
- Any spelling and grammar issues
This often catches little typos and every now and then gaps in my understanding of material.
Creating Excerpts
Finally I also let AI write my excerpts. AI is incredibly good at summarizing, so I'll often write something like:
Summarize the following article into an excerpt for a blog post. Create 3 different variants.
Then I pick one of them that feels good and adjust it to my liking.