The writing on this site (the blog posts, the about section, the section headings) was shaped with Claude Opus. I want to be upfront about that, because I think you deserve to know.
But here's the distinction I'd ask you to hold onto: AI was the instrument, not the author. Every idea on this site came from me. The stories: the music years, the design years, the late nights teaching myself to code. Those are real. The opinions on model routing, infrastructure, AI tooling: those are things I live and work with every day. I knew exactly what I wanted to say. I just used the best available tool to help me say it precisely.
Think of it like this: a filmmaker has a vision. A cinematographer helps realise it. Nobody questions whose film it is. I'm the director here. Claude is the cinematographer.
“The ideas, direction, and intent are mine. AI was the pen, not the mind behind it.”
I also want to acknowledge something broader: we are at a moment where a lot of people are quietly using AI to write and pretending otherwise. I don't think that's a good look: not because AI assistance is wrong, but because hiding it is. The technology is extraordinary. There's no shame in using it well. There is shame in being dishonest about it.
So: the thoughts are mine. The craft is shared. And I'll always be straight with you about that.
Sacha
How it works
I work with OpenClaw: a self-hosted AI gateway running Claude Opus via OpenRouter. I describe what I want to communicate, the context, the audience, the tone. The model drafts. I review, redirect, and refine until it says exactly what I intended. The process is closer to editing than writing, and editing is still authorship.