Updated as of November 11, 2026
In personal time, I will sometimes use LLMs as a “search engine” similar to the way anyone would have used Google, etc. prior to today’s conception of GenAI.
I do not use them to generate writing, art, code, or other “content” for this site or any projects and such that I publish personally or that I knowingly sign my name to.
At my place of work, I am tracked on whether or not I am using GenAI, although some discretion thus far is left up to individuals about when and how it’s used. Of course pressure is applied in various forms to “incentivize” high adoption for every possible use case regardless of value.
I think the word “forced” is nearly correct, but misses the bigger phenomenon, which is that practically everywhere in programming is getting infested with a specific attitude about what these things are and what they do, and therefore it’s becoming impossible to avoid unless you run the business.
I will definitely agree that AI is not a tool, and I’m a little tired of everyone’s extremely ill-conceived debate points on this topic.
This page is inspired by various blogs, and in large part by Derek Sivers’s AI page at https://sive.rs/ai.