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Using ASCII Art to Prove that I, not an LLM, Wrote Something
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- Title
- To Art is Human - proving you wrote that text by making it pretty
- Authors
- Joe Kaufeld,
- Published
- Sep 24 2026
- Word count
- 4151 words
This is a blog post that I spent the last two months working on. I've run into a situation at work where there are several people who aggressively vibe-code all the things, and while I think that LLM usage is helpful in some cases, I don't believe that outsourcing your brain to it has any real usefulness. This post is about the techniques that I've adopted at work, and the history behind them, for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the documentation I write is by me and me alone.
I'd love to know your thoughts!
Your mobile-friendly link at the top links to example.com, not the mobile friendly version.
I knew someone was going to point that out before I fixed it
The build that fixed it failed before I noticed, and it's re-running now. >_<
edit: it's fixed now!
If there's one thing I've learned about website design, blog publishing, documentation publishing, and commenting on things it's that the nanosecond I push to production I'll catch a glaring error that I should've caught in one of the 4-5 passes before I finalized and published. Every time. Without fail.
Every single freakin' time.