What we did and what the assistant did

Here is the whole split, as plainly as we can put it. This site was built by us together with an AI coding assistant, and we think you should know which part was whose.

Key points

• Our part: the ideas, the taste, the pictures, the corrections and the decisions about what to publish.
• The assistant’s part: building and rebuilding pages, matching them to the picture, running the checks and drafting text.
• In the first three days the project history shows more than 80 saved changes.
• We decide what goes out under the BotKB name.

What we did

• We brought the first ideas, with Gemini (opens in a new tab) and Claude (opens in a new tab), and we said so when we were not happy. That is the first story.
• We made the pictures. The main picture on the home page and the covers of these stories all came from long conversations with meta.ai (opens in a new tab). When we wanted a more technical look, with dark glass tablets and gold icons, we chose it over the construction site of the first picture.
• We chose the direction. One picture set the colors for the whole site, as we tell in One picture changed the whole site.
• We corrected the facts. The audits of our case studies were read by the person who built the projects, and wrong lines were fixed.
• We decided what not to publish, and what to remove. We took out a blog we had started, because it held one made-up example post.

What the assistant did

• It built and rebuilt the pages. In the first three days our project history, the dated list of every change we saved, shows more than 80 changes, from the first tabs to the error pages in both languages.
• It matched everything to the picture: colors, shadows, shared headers and footers, and the words of the pages.
• It ran the checks: the page checker, the check that both languages have the same pieces of site text, and the audits of our case studies.
• It drafted text, including these stories, from our notes and from the history of the work.

Where we checked each other

The checks went both ways. The audits caught things we had remembered wrong. We corrected claims that the code alone could not settle. The fact-checking story tells how that works.

Why we say it

An AI assistant makes a site like this quick to build; the choices, the facts and the words that go out under the BotKB name stay with us. We review what the assistant writes, and we decide what stays.