No, I Am Not AI

Scott Willsey, author of the blog scottwillsey.com, denied that his post about vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps was generated by AI, after Hacker News users speculated it was. Willsey stated he uses AI for coding utilities and editing videos but writes all his posts himself, noting that AI cannot capture his tone or thoughts.

No, I Am Not AI /no-i-am-not-ai Apparently a bunch of people on Hacker News think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665 my post about vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/ 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 https://www.youtube.com/@FriendswithBrewsPodcast 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 https://mastodon.macstories.net/@johnvoorhees of MacStories https://www.macstories.net 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