On AI

[PLACEHOLDER — Opie's statement in his own words. Required content: he drafts by hand and by dictation; AI is used for transcription, spelling, and proofreading as a dyslexia accommodation; every sentence is his own.]

One distinction worth making plainly: the prose on this site and in the manuscripts is mine. The plumbing of the site itself — code, build tools, deployment — was built with modern tools, the way any site is.