Editorial policy
How we use AI in our writing
If you're spending time reading our blog, you should know what you're reading. Articles are written by humans, edited with AI assistance, and reviewed by humans before they go up.
What AI does
A rubber duck
A light pass on prose somebody has already written from experience.
Grammar and flow. An author finishes a draft, then asks an AI to flag any kind of mistake. The author decides what to take and what to ignore. The point is to consider alternatives and rewrite, not just click "accept all".
Sanity checks. "Am I being completely out of line here?" The author is the expert on the topic. AI may push back on a claim or how something is presented, and we reconsider it.
Diagrams. One thing we may let AI do is draw diagrams for us, but they're still carefully reviewed and approved (and probably tweaked a lot).
What AI doesn't do
It doesn't write the article
Publishing AI slop is a good way to have publishing permissions revoked.
AI does not draft articles. The article comes from the author's experience, opinion, and operational scars. If we don't have something to say, we don't publish.
AI is not a source of truth. We don't ask it whether a claim is correct and trust the answer. Models hallucinate confidently on technical details.
AI is not responsible. A machine cannot be responsible, the author is. The human is responsible for accuracy and verification. Cross-checking with valid sources is a must.
Why
If we're asking for your time, we owe you something real
Generated content is everywhere. We're not adding to the pile.
Our writers have decades of production scars across healthcare, e-commerce, manufacturing, and SaaS. Reading those scars is the point. An article that's mostly model output isn't worth the space on this site, and it isn't worth your time.