My AI editor, and I am the boss
11 October 2026
My good blog posts rarely fail because of ideas. They fail because of time. On the go I see an exciting article, a talk or a graphic and think "I should write about that". Three weeks later I no longer know where the link was.
So I built myself a small editorial office. With exactly one editor, who never gets tired, and exactly one editor-in-chief: me.
How it works
- Collect. Whatever interests me, I send by email to a dedicated collection inbox: a link, a few keywords, and a PDF, photos or slides as an attachment if I like.
- Write. When I say "turn this into a post", Claude writes a draft, in my tone and structured like the other posts here.
- Review. I see the draft in the back end of the website exactly as it would look in the blog. Below it are three buttons: approve, have it revised or discard.
- Publish. Only after my approval does the post move into the blog.
Why not fully automatic?
Because my name is on it. An AI can summarise, structure and phrase things brilliantly. But it does not know what I think myself, what I want to leave out or where a sentence sounds too pushy. That decision stays with me. The AI takes the legwork off my hands, not the judgement.
My conclusion after the first day
The best moment is the "Have it revised" button: one sentence like "shorter introduction, more examples from Tyrol", and shortly afterwards the new version is there. This makes writing fun again.