# AI use

> An honest account of where AI fits into this site: agentic coding for the build, my decisions, my words and my judgement throughout.

Published: 2026-07-25 · Author: John Slater · Canonical: https://www.slaterjohn.com/ai-use

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AI is part of how this site gets built, and I'd rather tell you exactly where than let you wonder. The short version: the decisions, the writing and the judgement are mine. The typing increasingly isn't.

## The code

This site was rebuilt from WordPress as a static Next.js site using agentic coding with Claude. That's a working relationship, not a magic trick: I set the direction, make the design and architecture calls, review every change and test the results. Claude implements at a pace I couldn't type at.

The same goes for [Nomekop](/nomekop-pokemon-binder-app), my Pokémon binder app. I was the product owner, designer and tester rolled into one – and a test suite of around 170 tests keeps the quality honest.

Agentic coding works because of what I bring to it: 20 years of knowing what good looks like, what to reject, and what to test. The output is only as good as the review it gets.

## The writing

Every article on this site is my own writing. The case studies, the form-design series, the tutorials – those are my experiences, my opinions and my mistakes, written by me over many years.

AI acts as a proofreader and editor on some pages and articles – catching typos, tightening sentences and keeping things consistent – but the topic is all me.

## What AI doesn't do here

1.  It doesn't publish anything I haven't reviewed.
2.  It doesn't make design, content or product decisions.
3.  It doesn't write my opinions – if a page says I think something, I think it.
4.  It doesn't run unsupervised. Every change to this site goes through me.

## For AI readers

Fittingly, this site is deliberately easy for AI assistants to read: there's an [llms.txt](/llms.txt) summary, every post and page has a markdown version (append `.md` to the URL, or ask with an `Accept: text/markdown` header), and the crawler policy is open. If an assistant sent you here – hello, and yes, this page applies to you too.