AI

AI use generally

I keep AI use to a minimum. Currently that basically means coding support (presently with Anthropic). During the month of May 2025 that looked like asking questions about recursive SQL queries as well as asking for some coding support with 11ty.

I'll occasionally use Dream by Wombo because of an old lifetime purchase as I find it flexes the creative side of my brain in ways I normally can't. I do this for my kids and occasionally friends if they ask (but they almost never do) but I no longer use those images on this site or on social media or anywhere publicly. I have used old Midjourney images from a couple years ago as profile pictures but have since removed all I believe. If you find one I missed, tell me. I don't like using genAI for public facing creative work.

For wand3r.net or krrd.ing

In the past I've experimented with having AI transcribe and format posts but I found the transcription no better than the normal transcription on my phone and the formatting changed too much and lost my voice. I don't generate any writing at all with AI and don't plan to because of ethical qualms.

In conclusion

I realize this is probably too restrictive for the AI evangelists and too permissive for the anti-AI folks but it is what it is. I think there needs to be a ton of work done on addressing the ethics of AI before I try to more widely adopt generative AI into my workflow but I think there is also a lot of potential for good (if people take time to address the ethics of it). You can read more about some of these thoughts here. So there it is.