My AI Writing Policy

Every word you see on this site was typed by me. I don’t use LLMs to write, not even drafts. I even Manually type punctuation, including em-dashes.

I did experiment with AI writing, for fun. Then I decided I would try it as an editor/reviewer, or as an initial aid for bouncing around essay ideas or sketching outlines. But even at a remove from the final product, AI still has a smell I can’t get rid of, even in 2026. It rubs off on everything it touches. I have it on me, I confess. I find the smell not quite offensive in task-oriented contexts. But in creative ones it is, finally, unbearable.

Aside from the smell, there is AI’s effect on me as a person. It doesn’t make me dumber or less able to code or write, but it does tend to coopt my whole faculty of language in service of doing rather than seeing (Prompting vs. Perceiving). I choose to counteract this by preserving my creative work as an AI-free space.