AI usage on this site
I've maintained a personal website in some capacity since the 1990s. I cut my teeth on GeoCities and Angelfire, muddling my way through basic HTML and later CSS and JavaScript.
The sites have always been my little playground to experiment with web design. I probably wouldn't be where I am today in my life and career if not for the experience of building my own sites.
Over a decade ago, I decided that I wanted to become a better writer. The best way to get better at something is to put in the reps, and that's what I did. I started to blog every single week and have done so since.
It's my belief that everybody should have their own slice of the Internet. Share your opinions, document your life. Control the narrative, instead of giving the content away to some soulless corporation (e.g. Meta, X, etc).
This is even more important now in the era of generative AI. It's hard to deny the dead Internet theory when you take a look at search results these days. We can't let human-generated content go the way of the dinosaur.
I'm here to tell you that I, a human being, write the content on this site. My content may not be perfect, and my sentences are often too long, but I still take pride in sitting down and knocking out a blog post by hand.
That's not to say I haven't used AI at all on this site. I've dabbled with using AI to identify typos and improve clarify of content that I originally wrote. Always used sparingly, and never once have I generated content outright and tried to pass it off as my own, regardless of what the robots have to say.