How I Use AI on This Site
Adopted July 2026. Last updated: July 16, 2026.
I build websites for a living and I work with AI tools every day. I am also a pastor, and much of what I write here is read by people who know me and trust me. So when you read something on this site, you deserve an answer to the question: who wrote this, and how?
The short answer: I did. The longer answer is that AI is involved in different ways on different posts, so every post ends with a tag naming one of these levels.
No AI
Written, edited, and published entirely by hand. No AI tools touched it at any point.
Level 1: Proofreading
A tool checked spelling and punctuation. Think Grammarly. The words, the structure, and the ideas are mine, typed by hand.
Level 2: Suggested edits
I wrote the piece by hand, then asked an AI tool to suggest edits. I accepted or rejected each suggestion myself.
Level 3: Voice memo to draft
I talked through my thinking in a voice memo. An AI assistant turned that into a written draft, and we worked through an editorial process until the piece said what I meant, the way I would say it. Every post at this level gets a final pass from me, by hand, before it is published. No exceptions.
Level 4: Generated from a prompt
A post written entirely by AI from a prompt, with the prompt published alongside it so you can see exactly what was asked. This site doesn't publish posts at this level. I'm mentioning it here so you know that.
Once in a while a post won't fit these levels cleanly. When that happens, the post ends with a postscript that says what actually happened.
Most of what's on this site before July 2026 was written entirely by hand, well before I started using AI — that covers the old tech and web-design blog and most of the sermons and essays after it. A handful of posts, though, have earlier publish dates than the day I actually wrote them, and AI had a hand in a few of those; they're tagged post by post like everything else, not grandfathered in. Ask me about any specific post if you want the details.
Two more things about the machinery. My AI tools can stage a draft in my publishing system, but nothing goes public on its own. I review every draft and I press the publish button myself. And there is a category of writing I do entirely by hand and always will: sermons, and letters to people in hard seasons. In that work, something happens in me that I don't want to skip.
Why publish all this? Because of trust. If anything here raises a question, ask me.