This site, and most of the wikis behind it, are written with AI. I say so up front because the opposite position is now common and well argued: writing by hand is how you think, and a text nobody could be bothered to write is not worth reading. I respect people who work that way. For the work I do, I think the trade runs the other way.
Why I use it
The questions I work on sit where water, land, money and governance meet, in fields that rarely read each other’s journals. The material is vast and it changes every week: new bonds, new rules, new studies, new places trying something. I do not see how anyone can hold a systemic view of that much without AI. I spent forty years trying to do it with notebooks and meetings, and I know where that runs out.
What it does here
- Research: finding sources, reading more of them than I could alone, and checking claims against them.
- Drafting: turning my notes, frameworks and conversations into pages in a consistent format, with the links and tags that let a reader, or a reader’s AI, find their way around.
What stays mine is the work that decides what a page says: the questions, the frameworks, the judgement of what is true enough to publish, and the decision to publish it. I review every page before it goes up. Every factual claim carries a tag saying where it comes from, so you can check it without trusting me or the machine. The letters get the most of my own hand, because I sign them.
Where it falls short
Generative AI writes fluently, and fluent text can hide thin thinking. You will find its fingerprints here: a rhythm that runs a little too even, a phrase you have read somewhere before. I wish I could write every page of the wikis by hand. A perfectly human page takes days or weeks, and by then the bond may have closed and the rules changed. So I publish a good synthesis that shows its machine marks while it is still useful.
If a page reads as though a machine helped, it did. If a claim on it is wrong, that is mine to fix. Corrections replace the text, and the page records the date.
Your AI and mine
The wikis are written to be read by AI as well as by people. Each has a map for AI agents at its root, llms.txt, so you can give it to the AI you already use and ask your own questions. What you ask stays in your session and never reaches me.
Most of the writing here is done with Anthropic’s Claude.