How I use Generative AI

The blog posts on this website are NOT 100% AI-generated. The core content comes from my own brain, mouth, and fingers.

But AI helps me handle some chores that improve my productivity when creating content.

How I Use GenAI

Here’s how I currently use AI during my content creation process.

I use AI for blog post proofreading

I write everything in English, the most spoken language in the world.

But English is my third language. As much as I learn and use English every day, I understand that I’m not an expert in the language itself.

So having AI proofread my blog posts is very helpful and saves me a lot of time. It also improves the final result.

In the end, Large Language Models are expert in languages, right? They should be good at this.

I use AI to fix YouTube auto-generated captions

English captions or subtitles are very important for YouTube videos, especially for audiences with hearing problems like me.

Also, I can’t really proofread my audio once the video is published. Sometimes I misspeak something or have unclear pronunciation. Having accurate captions feels like a second chance to fix mistakes in the video.

But honestly, writing captions is one of those chores you know you should do, but really don’t want to.

YouTube already generates captions automatically using AI. But the results are often pretty bad.

So I use AI to fix and proofread those captions. After that, I manually sync them with the audio again to make sure everything is accurate.

I use AI to create raw blog post drafts from my YouTube captions

Usually, I create a blog post based on the same content as my YouTube video.

The fastest way to create the initial draft is by using the captions or audio transcriptions from my own videos.

Even after proofreading the captions, the structure is usually terrible. Most of the time it becomes one or two giant paragraphs.

So I use AI to restructure the transcription into a more readable draft.

Essentially, it’s still my own content, just organized better.

But even then, it’s still not good enough.

From there, I heavily edit the draft myself to make sure the final result is accurate and has zero AI slop.

Once I’m happy with the article, I use AI one more time for final proofreading.

I use AI to modify and fix website templates

Sometimes I need to fix parts of my website.

Maybe some font sizes are too small. Maybe I need to add some JavaScript or CSS.

I use AI to generate those code changes. But I always review and test the code properly before using it.

This is one area where I genuinely don’t want to do everything manually anymore.

I’d rather spend my time writing articles and making videos. That’s more valuable to me (and hopefully you too).