My AI policy

There's no shortage of commentary on LLM usage and I've penned several posts that have never left draft status because in part I can't articulate exactly what I want, and partly because there's so much noise around the subject. That's been true for the last few years but as an senior (and old) developer I think it might be useful to at least put in writing what happens to be true for me this moment in October 2026. Fair notice: this post will only briefly cover any policy I personally hold and quickly move into my opinions about LLMs and our community. On this blog Yeah, no. My words are mine. They might be regurgitated in your LLM chat session, but every typo, grammar failure and angry word is mine here. Additionally, the code that drives this site is almost all mine. I do use a few node libraries here and there (probably pug is the biggest one), but the "author code" is all me too. To be clear, this isn't because I'm some kind of shining light in the dark, it's because I need to…