AI Statement

This page is inspired by Damola Morenikeji’s excellent blog post which describes how to responsibly disclose how you make use of AI tooling1.

  • Everything on this website is written by me, Tom Bower, unless I explicitly state otherwise. After all, if I can’t be bothered to write it, why should I expect you to read it?
  • I enjoy the process of writing and putting my thoughts to paper, so generating content with AI would defeat a large part of why I maintain this site in the first place.
  • I like to use em-dashes and en-dashes, and have been using them long before tools like ChatGPT started abusing them. No, an em-dash does not indicate AI use.

However, that doesn’t mean I don’t use large language models or other AI tools — quite the opposite. Tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Codex have been a huge productivity boost in terms of allowing me to carry out research, develop ideas, and speed up programming. Importantly, I will always fact check anything AI tools claim to check for correctness.

In general, I prefer to ask for directions on how to do something when in conversation with an LLM rather than asking it to do something for me. For example, asking ChatGPT to help me revise some search terms I could use for a research project, or asking Claude Code to show me how to run a particular git command instead of asking it to run the command on my behalf.

If my stance of usage of AI changes in the future, I will update this page to reflect that.

Footnotes

  1. You can take a look at some other sites in this movement at https://slashai.page ↩

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