No, I Am Not AI Apparently a bunch of people on Hacker News think my post about vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps was itself vibe-coded.
I guess I should have expected it, considering it IS a post about using AI to do things I don’t want to do, like futz around with Xcode itself. But I gotta say… does this site really look AI generated? Any of it?
The thing is, I’m very clear with people about what I use AI for and what I don’t use it for. I do use it to write utilities and apps. I do use it to do research for me, for all kinds of things ranging from work to personal interests. I do use it to create me reports of information and summarize things for me. I do use it for, honestly, a lot of my website coding now (the plumbing of this site). I just throw it at Claude Code. What interests me is the stuff ON my site, and that’s what I write.
Oh yeah, I even use Claude Code to edit videos for me now. I don’t use AI to create the videos, but I do have it edit them and generate show notes for them, with heavy direction from me on both.
I am extremely transparent about all of this.
But still, AI did not write this post, or the previous post, or any of the posts on this website, because I did. I’m a literate man who’s been around a long time and I have my own thoughts on how to write, and one thing Claude does NOT do well is capture my tone. And even if it did, it doesn’t actually know what I’m thinking.
Anyway, my guess is the only reason my blog post was noticed at all was thanks to John Voorhees of MacStories boosting it for me. Thanks, John! Also thanks, John, for not accusing me of having AI write the post! 😄
Oh, no… an emoji! I MUST be an AI!