April 6, 2026
"Did AI write this?" is the wrong question.
It's like asking did a typewriter type this. Did a compiler compile this. The tool isn't the author.
I think about this book report I did as a kid. Everyone else was doing it by hand. I made mine on a word processor — did the layout, found pictures, made a binding. It was done. And someone asked me, "did the computer make this?"
I was kind of offended. I was a kid and I remember thinking, what a dumb question. I made it. I used a computer. Did a pen make your book report?
AI is new, so we're not used to it yet. And because we call it "intelligence," we get weird about it — like maybe it's doing the human's job? But it's a tool. A loud, confusing, impressive tool, but a tool.
A jam is me thinking out loud, using that tool. The ideas are mine. The thinking is mine. I'm not the best writer — so I work with something that is. We go back and forth, argue a little, and what comes out is something I couldn't have written alone. But the soul, that's from me.