This Blog, Brought To You Through AI! (Well, Kinda)

When I last wrote about AIs (well, technically, LLMs), I have noted that I’ll never use LLMs to write articles for this blog. I am not breaking said promise! Much as I’ve been tempted to let an LLM write a “Privacy Policy” page (since it would all be boilerplate anyway, I’m not tracking anything, and the only third party cookie is from WordPress/Automattic themselves), I don’t plan on ever letting an LLM try to pass for me. Heck, I refuse to even use tools like Grammarly, because I don’t trust their privacy policies, to the dismay of a few readers. Where I have actually used an LLM is to get myself a tool to write this blog more easily. I have let agents, and multiple models, under my active supervision, build an Android app: a WordPress client, optimized to be used with eInk displays such as the Max Lumi which I already used up until recently to write later at night. You may or may not know that – when I bought the Max Lumi and started using it – I have struggled badly with the…