{"slug": "ai-usage-by-derek-sivers", "title": "AI Usage by Derek Sivers", "summary": "Derek Sivers, an author and programmer, states that he uses generative AI tools like OpenRouter.ai and the llm command-line tool for programming assistance but never allows AI to write as him, ensuring nothing claiming to be written by him is AI-generated. He emphasizes that he enjoys the challenge of writing himself and will update his page at sive.rs/ai if this policy changes.", "body_md": "# AI usage\n\nAs of today, , here is how I use generative AI/LLM tools.\n\nI use [OpenRouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/) to direct my questions to any variety of LLMs.\nUsually on the command line, using the [llm](https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/) tool.\n\nFor programming, I ask it how to do things I don’t know how to do. Then I use what I’ve learned in my own code.\n\nI **never** have it do the coding for me.\n\nI **never** use AI to write as me.\n**\nNo emails.\nNo sentences in my articles or books or even comments.\nNothing pretending to be me.\n**\n\nI enjoy the challenge of writing myself.\nIt’s organized thinking.\n**\nIt’s the doing I want, not having it done.\n**\nSee\n\n[my article “It’s about being, not having”](/being)for more thoughts on this.\n\nWhile I’m writing, I often ask it the kinds of things I would ask a friend sitting next to me. Like, “What are examples of different ways of seeing life that are impossible to prove or disprove?” Or, “What professions most use a physical toolbox?”\n\nBut again, the real point of this page is to let you know that **nothing claiming to be written by me is written by an AI**.\n\nIf this changes in the future, I’ll update this page at this permanent URL:\n[sive.rs/ai](/ai)\n\nThis page is suggested by\n\n[Damola, here](https://www.bydamo.la/p/ai-manifesto). (Check out his blog. He’s great.)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-usage-by-derek-sivers", "canonical_source": "https://sive.rs/ai", "published_at": "2026-07-31 17:12:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 17:22:24.612809+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Derek Sivers", "OpenRouter.ai", "llm"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-usage-by-derek-sivers", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-usage-by-derek-sivers.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-usage-by-derek-sivers.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-usage-by-derek-sivers.jsonld"}}