2026-10-28
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How I use AI
Oct 28, 2026 Ā· Amirouche Amazigh BOUBEKKI
I use AI for most of my work. Three things stay mine: the ideas, the
designs, and the decision to publish.
What stays mine
- The ideas. Every post starts from something I want
to say. AI helps me say it, not decide what to say.
- The designs. I design the algorithms. AI writes the
scaffolding: the code that follows from a design I made.
- The final word. Nothing goes out under my name
until I have read it and can stand behind it. If something here is
wrong, the mistake is mine.
What AI does for me
- English. English is not my first language. I think
in French and in the other languages I know, and some of their idioms do
not travel well. AI helps me write English that other English speakers
can read, without idioms that could mislead, unless I put them there on
purpose.
- Research. AI helps me find sources, and place what
I find in prior art: who worked on this before, and what they called
it.
- Code. AI scaffolds code from my designs.
āGeneratedā is not the right word for it.
- Search and debugging. For everyday questions and
bugs, AI has replaced most of my use of Google and Stack Overflow. It is
a better interface for the same old practice: I check what can be
checked. What I cannot check, I drop, or I present it clearly as a
theory or a claim.
What I donāt do
I donāt run fleets of AI agents that open pull requests nobody asked
for. Most of my work, for better or worse, is my own projects, and that
is where I use AI. I donāt send other people pull requests made of AI
code I donāt understand.
What is coming
For now this page covers the whole site. I am working on a design
where each post shows which parts are mine and which are the
modelās.
Thanks
The idea of a /ai/ page comes from Gunnar Morling and Robin Moffatt.