Use of AI

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Where AI sits in the system

I use AI as a drafting and management assistant inside the workflow. The ideas, the positions, and nearly all of the published language are mine. AI accelerates the parts of the work that are mechanical: gathering research, outlining, producing first drafts, restructuring the site, and building supporting material such as datasets and figures.

What AI does, and what I do

Work	AI does	I do
Research	Collects sources, summarizes dockets and reports, and organizes reference material in the private research repository (see the publishing workflow). For deep research this means multiple agents, sometimes ten at once, splitting search, analysis, and collation.	Direct the agents and triage the results. My reading queue is long, so I review the output and discard mercilessly. What survives gets verified against primary sources: every reference, figure, and dataset row. Nothing publishes with an open `[verify]` flag.
Argument	Assembles evidence for the positions I set.	Choose the thesis and review every argument closely. Drafts often frame positions I do not hold. The draft gets corrected, not the position.
Outlining	Develops a drafting outline interactively with me, often for more complex documents.	Write the document myself, from the outline.
Drafting	Produces first drafts against the voice guide. A draft is raw material.	Rewrite into my voice. I expect to rewrite a third of a draft or more, and for some pieces nearly all of it. My own edits are applied verbatim.
Editing	Works through a document with me, often line by line or paragraph by paragraph. Cleans rough passages I throw out, and makes spelling and punctuation corrections on my rewrites.	Supply the rough material, correct the cleaned version, and settle the final wording.
Reorganization	Restructures a document when I find it needs it: moves material within and between articles, and checks that a line in one article is not contradicted elsewhere.	Decide that a reorganization is needed, and review the moved result.
Site engineering	Restructures sections, builds redirects, edits configuration, and drafts documentation pages like this one, working directly in the repository.	Review every change before commit.
Code documentation	Reads code and documents what it does: template overrides, build scripts, and the procedures around them, in whatever language they are written. The Theme Overrides page is an example.	Ask the questions, and check the answers against the running site.
Supporting artifacts	Builds curated datasets, maps, and figures. These carry draft markings.	Verify every element before the draft marking comes off.
Publication	Nothing.	Decide what publishes, where, and when.

The reader might notice a pattern in that table. Every entry in the AI column is assembly: reading, collecting, drafting, moving. Every entry in mine is judgment against ground truth: the primary sources, my positions, my voice, the running site.

Drafting on Werk Space

Use of AI

Where AI sits in the system

What AI does, and what I do