AI Usage by Derek Sivers
AI usage As of today, March 29, 2026, here is how I use generative AI/LLM tools. I use OpenRouter.ai to direct my questions to any variety of LLMs. Usually on the command line, using the llm tool.
- ▪AI usage As of today, March 29, 2026, here is how I use generative AI/LLM tools.
- ▪I use OpenRouter.ai to direct my questions to any variety of LLMs.
- ▪Usually on the command line, using the llm tool.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,075 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Derek Sivers |
| Canonical URL | https://sive.rs/ai |
| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:12:07 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-31T17:18:29.039Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-31T17:18:29.039Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | lBP3x0H1yY0A · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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AI usage As of today, March 29, 2026, here is how I use generative AI/LLM tools. I use OpenRouter.ai to direct my questions to any variety of LLMs. Usually on the command line, using the llm tool. For programming, I ask it how to do things I don’t know how to do. Then I use what I’ve learned in my own code. I never have it do the coding for me. I never use AI to write as me. No emails. No sentences in my articles or books or even comments. Nothing pretending to be me. I enjoy the challenge of writing myself. It’s organized thinking. It’s the doing I want, not having it done. See my article “It’s about being, not having” for more thoughts on this. While I’m writing, I often ask it the kinds of things I would ask a friend sitting next to me.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Derek Sivers.
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