What it is
There’s a difference between “AI-generated” and “AI-assisted.” The first produces something generic. The second is a person using tools to build something specific. A woodworker who uses a CNC router still designed the piece and chose the wood. The machine cuts, but the human decides.
How it shows up for me
This site is hundreds of commits of specific choices, and a lot of it involved AI. But the choices, what to build, what to skip, what principles to hold, came from me sitting with the project for months, not from a prompt.
The honest test is whether the decisions are mine. When I can’t tell you why something is the way it is, it’s drifting toward the generic side.