Is this blog written by AI?

Is this blog written by AI? No. None of the human-readable text on this blog is written by AI, and I have no plans to change that. The weird grammar, incorrect assumptions, spelling errors, and annoying tics are all mine. Including the em dashes. I don’t use LLMs for writing. On this blog, or in my professional life. I use agents extensively for brainstorming, research, summarizing, checking facts, handling markup, finding references, analyzing data, and so on. But I think that asking people to read LLM-generated text breaks a kind of social contract. When I publish a piece of writing under my name (e.g. in my blog, or a document at work), I want the reader to know that I deeply understand and own what I wrote. That I respect their time and effort. In exchange, I want them to be fully and deeply engaged with reading. If I’m going to generate a doc from a prompt, then send it to somebody who summarizes it with an LLM and reads the summary, what have I achieved? I could have sent them…