Statement of Creative Transparency

As an artist I would prefer to be able to say that I don’t use AI at all. I refuse to use AI to write words that are meant to represent my voice or ideas. I don’t use it to generate images. But I am forced to make an exception within my anti-AI stance to allow for code generation.

This is the first version of this website that wasn’t code entirely by hand. I take pride in my ability to write html, css, and javascript. However, it is undeniable that coding agents are an improvement over how I have created this website in the past.

While I use an LLM to write this website’s code I still have a firm grip on the output of this site. Specifically, I have a custom markdown to html conversion tool that lets me maintain the exact output that I want. Currently, coding agents spit out code that is needlessly ugly. I may not be writing the code, but I am very picky about the markup that the LLMs generate. It’s not perfect but it is as close to what I conseder “quality code” that I can currently get while still leveraging the benefits that pairing with an LLM can currently provide me.