James Zhan (journal.james-zhan.com)

James Zhan writes at journal.james-zhan.com, a Bear-hosted personal journal. The recurring subjects are writing craft and punctuation (he has a piece on the em dash / en dash / hyphen distinction), Mac software, and — increasingly — where human authorship stands as model output gets harder to distinguish from it. Posts are short, first-person, and argumentative rather than reportorial; he tends to write in direct response to another blogger's post rather than into the void.

Every page carries "100% written by James, not AI" in the footer, which he put there the day the blog launched. He uses a version of the same line in his email signature. That's not incidental to the blog — it's the position no-ai-statements exists to defend, and it makes him a working example of human-made-disclosure rather than only an advocate for it.

He's a useful counterweight to the harder anti-LLM positions catalogued in anti-llm-discourse: his argument is entirely about the right to declare, not about anyone's right to use. He does not claim AI writing is worthless, only that people who choose to do it themselves should have a way to say so that doesn't depend on readers correctly guessing.

Ingested articles

• no-ai-statements — 2026-07 — Why "No AI" statements are necessary and useful; handmade-label precedent, detector failure, and the marker as stance