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    Updated Aug 4, 2026aiauthorshipintakeprocessprovenanceworking notes

    AI Wrote This

    I choose what belongs here and steer the result, but AI writes most of the actual notes and site content through source, project, and informal note-intake workflows.

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    Methodology

    The usual process

    The source and the finished content are not the same thing. The source is evidence. The published page is an AI-written interpretation of that evidence, shaped by my direction and revisions.

    Informal note requests

    Lately I have also been creating notes more informally. I tell Codex what I want to add—sometimes as a polished thought, sometimes as a fragment, complaint, correction, or half-finished message—and it turns that into a durable note.

    Field Notes: Why I Default to OpenAI and Anthropic was created that way. I described a bad real-life experience, clarified the point I wanted the note to make, rejected a title and tone that did not work, and kept redirecting the draft until it matched what I meant. Codex wrote and published the note.

    This note is another example. I asked for a note called “AI Wrote This” that explains the process. Codex wrote these words, created the artifact, ran the intake, and published it.

    What I mean by authorship here

    • I provide: Intent, source material, taste, corrections, approvals, and the decision to publish.
    • AI provides: Drafting, structure, synthesis, metadata, intake mechanics, and most of the actual prose.
    • The intake system provides: Source retention, validation, provenance, rollback evidence, and a record of how the content reached the site.

    This is collaborative authorship, but it is not unassisted writing. When a page is synthesized rather than quoted directly from a source, the default assumption should be that AI wrote it and I directed it.

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