How I use AI

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When reading my articles, you might rightfully ask if anything is written by AI. I certainly question that when anything these days.

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 about things I learn and find interesting, hoping that others also find them interesting or at least valuable.

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.

Currently pi is my daily driver. Every now and then I'll pull up Codex because of it's fantastic computer use.

See that nice clock icon next to "last updated"? Totally generated by GPT 5.6-Sol. I wrote the date as a <span> tag, it corrected it to a <time> tag.

Diagrams (kinda)

Often I'll draw diagrams using Excalidraw. Once I am happy with them, I have AI turn them into Mermaid.js diagrams. Or I might describe a flow in detial, 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 pi, and ask something along the lines of:

You are an expert editor, given the following article, identify:

  1. Things you believe to be false, explain why with sources
  2. Things you believe to be ambiguous and open for misinterpretation
  3. Any spelling and grammar issues

This often catches little typos and every now and then gaps in my understanding of material. I don't let it rewrite anything.

Creating Excerpts

Finally I also let AI write my excerpts. AI is incredibly good at summarizing, so I'll prompt 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.