Introduction

After building this blog and writing the first post in collaboration with Claude Code I wanted to understand how easy it would be to recognise that the post had some AI involvement. This post will be primarily written by me with some suggestions from Claude.

I’ve never investigated this area, but I assume it’s a big concern for blogging sites such as Medium or longer-form sites such as Substack.

I decided to start a blog and wanted to try something different - building it entirely with Claude Code as my development assistant. I gave Claude Code full permission to execute commands and edit files directly on my system. This post chronicles my experience creating this Hugo-based blog from scratch, where every line of code, every file, and every command was executed by AI through our conversation.

Starting Simple

I had Hugo already installed on my Mac (via Homebrew), but beyond that, I was starting completely fresh. My goal was simple: create a clean, fast blog that would showcase posts with previews on the home page.