AI disclosure
Whose knowledge, whose sentences
Who wrote the sentences? Claude did. Who wrote the knowledge? I did.
AI wrote those sentences and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Claude drafts prose from my notes. What it does not do is generate the knowledge underneath: it routes what I have already thought, structures it, and helps write the sentences that express it.
That is the difference between the two ways of using AI for writing. Give a model a topic and let it synthesise from the internet, and the sentences are clean while the knowledge is generic, because the model is the source. Build a system that captures your own thinking continuously, structures it, and feeds it to the model as the source material, and the sentences are still clean while the knowledge is yours. This site is the second one.
Where authorship is the subject of a post, the post says who wrote the sentences and who wrote the knowledge. Where an AI ran an analysis for a post, the post names it as the analyst.
Covers
Every cover image on this site is AI-generated. The caption under each cover carries the prompt it was generated from and credits the image model by name.
Inline images are evidence rather than decoration, and each one carries descriptive alt text and a caption.
Narration
Every post ships with an audio narration. It is generated from the post text by a text-to-speech system; it is not a recording of my voice.
Where the player offers a choice of voices, the names on those buttons are the names of synthetic voices, not of people.
What AI does not do here
It does not invent statistics. No fabricated statistic appears on this site, and where I have first-party evidence the post shows that rather than citing someone else's.
It does not invent first-hand claims. The dates, the incidents and the decisions are things I did; the systems, migrations, failures and patterns behind them came from doing the work, not from a model.
A real prompt, transcript or artifact that carries private names is never pasted here. It is removed and the removal is stated, or the version shown is labelled as a reconstruction.
The longer statement
The full version of this is a post: The LLM Smell Problem.