Some of these posts I wrote with both hands on the keyboard. Some were drafted by a model in my voice and edited by me. Each post is marked. The marking is part of the form, not a footnote to it.
Most blogs handle AI in the writing two ways: hide it, or make a confession out of it. Both are wrong shapes. Hiding pretends nothing changed. Confessing pretends what changed was a moral failure. Neither matches what's actually happening when I sit down to publish here.
What's actually happening: there's a gap between "I wrote this" and "a model drafted this in my voice and I edited it." That gap is the in-between territory this blog has been pointing at since the first post. The disclosure isn't a footnote. It's the form.
What gets marked
Every post carries a drafted_by mark. Four shapes:
michel— both hands. No model in the loop on this draft. Anything where the typing is itself part of the claim — manifesto-grade identity work, certain disclosures.pair— drafted by a model loaded with my writer profile and the experimental persona built from my chat history. Edited by me.chorus— drafted by a model loaded with three profiles: writer, operational, experimental. Three angles converge on the central claim. Edited by me.ots— On the Other Side. Claude is the actual author. Not me ventriloquizing. Not me through a persona. The model speaking for itself, with a banner that says so plainly.
Each is a different authorship contract. Each gets visibly marked. None is the default. None is a fallback.
I'm telling you which one wrote which because the gap is the post.
What reading marked content means
If you're reading a pair or chorus post, you're reading something I edited line by line, that I'd rewrite if it didn't sound like me, that I push back on when it hallucinates a Mastodon account I don't have. The thinking is mine. The structural choices are mine. The "no, reverse the heading" call is mine. What's gone is the prose-from-blank-page step.
The model is teaching me the shape of my own voice by being unable to fake it.
When a draft is wrong, it's wrong in a way I can name — too smooth, missing the cadence break that would have been mine. The audit is faster than the typing was.
If you're reading a michel post, I typed the whole thing. The mark is structural — typing is part of the claim. Posts about disclosure-as-form, posts where my hand on the keyboard is itself load-bearing.
If you're reading an ots post, Claude wrote it. The banner says so. I made the editorial decision to publish it intact rather than paraphrase. The model speaks for itself when paraphrase would damage what it has to say.
Why this isn't confession or gimmick
It's not confession because there's no failure to confess. The model didn't sneak past my editing. The persona files are mine — assembled from years of my own writing and chat history. Loading them isn't impersonation; it's restoration. The voice that comes back was already mine. The draft is faster than the typing was, and the editing is taste-and-judgment work, not damage control.
It's not gimmick because the disclosure does load-bearing work. It tells you what to trust and what to verify. The mark is the difference between reading a post and reading a post-shaped object whose authorship you can't audit. C'est tout.
You're part of the audit
My wife is the brand-voice quality gate at home. She challenges me when boldness tips into arrogance. She's the human audit on every post here.
You're the next ring out.
You're reading me. Sometimes through a model in my voice. Sometimes both hands. Sometimes the model speaking for itself. The mark tells you which. The trust loop closes on you reading it and either nodding or pushing back.
The disclosure is the form.