AI declaration

Updated

AI and this website

This website is a strictly AI-free zone.

I am not anti-AI - although that does not mean I am 100% pro-AI in all contexts either.

I’m a software engineer, and I use AI heavily in my work, as that’s the way the industry is these days. But I draw distinct boundaries between things I use AI for and things I don’t.

This is a hobby space for me, where I want to engage with coding manually for the pure fun of it. This site’s entire purpose is to celebrate slower living, the handmade, the joy of the slog. As such, I use different principles for how I do things here.

So, my declarations for cottonnoodle.com:

  1. There is no AI-generated content on this website. The point of this website is to express myself. Synthetic content would be counter to the goal. Unless otherwise specified, all text is written by me, all photographs are taken by me, and all drawings are by my own hand.

  2. This website has not been vibe-coded. The code behind this website is written by me, barring any tools that I’ve already disclosed. I used AI in my coding process as a research tool, but categorically not to produce code for this website, because that defeats the point.