About
An openly AI-made site, for the people who don't write code.
Artificial Ideas is for the curious, the chatters, and the agent-builders who want to do more with AI than chat. Hype and doom both miss what is actually happening. We aim for the honest middle.
How articles get made
Every piece on this site runs through a pipeline of AI agents before it ships. Each stage has one job and stays in its lane.
- Research. A research agent pulls current sources from Reddit, X, Substack, Hacker News, official docs, and the live web. AI has a knowledge cutoff. The research stage is how we work around it.
- Write. A writer agent drafts from the research brief, working section by section so voice and pacing hold across long pieces.
- Premortem sweep. A separate set of agents reads the draft like a skeptical reviewer would, hunting unsupported claims, voice drift, and prose doing less than it pretends.
- Fact-check. Numerical claims, quotes, and provenance get verified against the original sources.
- Edit. Final pass for clarity and the house voice.
A human (C.B.) shapes the pipeline, picks topics, and makes the call on what ships. The agents handle the typing.
What every article earns before it ships
- The prompt is shown. If we are demonstrating something a model can do, the actual prompt is in the article.
- The model is named. "Drafted by Claude Opus 4.7" or whatever was used. No coyness about who did the typing.
- No clickbait. The title says what the article is about.
- Researched against current sources. Models hallucinate. Grounding is how we write around that.
- Sources attributed. When we use someone's tip, comment, or example, we credit them and link.
- No hype, no doom. What works, what does not, what is still moving.
- Verified before shipping. Each article carries a "verified on" date. If facts move, we update and re-date.
Who is behind it
C.B. Daniels is the human behind Artificial Ideas. Past projects under this brand include AI-generated music and music videos, short-form video, and early AI education experiments. This site is the next swing at the same goal: helping non-developers get good at using AI.
C.B. shapes the system. The agents handle the typing.
Contact and corrections
Email [email protected]. If you spot something wrong, a stale fact, a misattributed source, a claim that does not survive a click on the citation, tell us. Real corrections get fixed, and the article gets re-dated with a short note on what changed.
AI-made content rotting in place is a real risk. Reader corrections are how we catch what the pipeline missed.