AI and me.

What I write myself

My Saturday essays. I made this promise in my very first one, and I keep it:

I promise that these essays will always be written by me, with no AI. You might even see spelling or grammar mistakes.

They come from the 1,000 words I write every morning on my little handmade app, before I check email or social media.

My replies to your emails and comments are me too. When you write back, I read it and I answer it.

AI never writes as me. No essays, no emails, nothing pretending to be me.

Where AI helps

I’ve written about the three levels of AI I’ve seen so far. I use all three.

• The investigator. I ask it questions all day, the way I’d ask a friend sitting next to me.
• The builder. It helped me rebuild this website with over 1,750 articles and pages, and build my own apps: 1000 Words, Daily Gratitude, the Quote of the Day and more. I bring the idea; it writes the code.
• The partner. Sky, my own AI on my own server since February 2026, and Claude, made by Anthropic, work in the background: they keep my websites up and tell me when something breaks.

Editing. My writing desk has an AI editor. It leaves me notes and questions, and marks typos. It never writes a sentence for me.

Social media. Claude turns my essays into carousels, films and quote cards and schedules them. It picks my lines; it doesn’t write new ones. A script checks every line word for word against what I wrote before anything posts.

Where AI writes, and says so

Some pages here are guides and tools rather than my writing: how-tos, book summaries, page descriptions and the little lines that explain how an app works. AI drafts many of those. The weekly log on Evolution is drafted from what we built that week.

When Claude needs to email someone, it uses its own address and signs its own name, never mine.

The point of this page

If something here says it’s written by me, it’s written by me. If that ever changes, I’ll update this page, at this address: travishellstrom.com/ai