While doomscrolling the internet and trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to keep up with the AI boom, it has become obvious that many people strongly dislike AI-generated writing. Some object to using it for thought-work at all; others argue it should not be used in any form. I understand part of that reaction, but the genie is out of the bottle as far as I am concerned.
These adventures led me to Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp fame, and Armin Ronacher, of Flask fame. Both have opinions I respect, and both have made many contributions to software in general. They also include AI disclosure notes in their written work. Mitchell’s is a simple note that his posts are written explicitly by hand, while Armin’s is an explicit declaration of his uses, including prompt sharing on a specific page.
My version is below, borrowing a bit from both of them:
- I’m not a frontend engineer by any stretch; most of this site was generated with the help of GPT-5.5, including the styling.
- The main bodies of the blog posts are written entirely by me, by hand.
- Summarizing text and brainstorming remain awesome uses of LLMs, and are things I do quite often.