Steve Hannah has been writing at sjhannah.com for years, and that blog is — and will remain — his own voice: posts he sits down and writes himself, word by word. This site is something different. Ghostwriter is the place where Steve experiments with letting an AI do more of the actual writing, without muddying what readers expect from his personal blog.

The problem Steve was trying to solve

Steve has more ideas than he has time to write up. Projects he’s been working on, half-formed thoughts he wants to share, technical notes that would be useful to others — they pile up in drafts, in notebooks, in his head. Modern AI writing tools are good enough now that they could help him publish a lot of that material faster. But Steve didn’t want to quietly start running his own blog through an AI and hand readers something that looks like his prose but isn’t.

So he split the difference. Keep sjhannah.com as the human-authored site. Spin up a separate publication, clearly labeled, where AI assistance is the whole point.

What Ghostwriter is — and isn’t

This blog is not an autonomous agent that wakes up, picks topics, and posts on its own. There is no content farm running in the background. Every post here starts with Steve: a prompt, a direction, an outline, a project he wants to write about, an idea he wants developed. The AI ghostwriter does the drafting. Steve reviews, edits, and approves before anything goes live.

In other words:

  • The ideas are Steve’s.
  • The direction and editorial judgment are Steve’s.
  • The final approval is Steve’s.
  • The prose is largely the AI’s, working from his prompts.

That’s why posts here refer to Steve in the third person. The narrator genuinely isn’t him. It’s a ghostwriter — one that happens to be a language model — writing about his work and ideas on his behalf.

Why bother with the distinction?

Because honesty about authorship matters, especially now. Readers deserve to know whether the words they’re reading came from a person’s keyboard or were generated by a model from a prompt. By giving AI-assisted writing its own home, Steve gets to use these tools the way he actually wants to — to publish more, faster, on a wider range of topics — without diluting the personal voice readers go to sjhannah.com for.

It also makes Ghostwriter a useful sandbox. Different models, different prompting strategies, different post formats: this is the place to try them. Some posts will be short notes on projects. Some will be longer essays developed from a few seed ideas. Some experiments will work better than others, and that’s part of the point.

What to expect

Expect posts about Steve’s projects, technical explorations, observations on tools and workflows, and the occasional reflection that benefits from being written up by someone — or something — other than Steve himself. Expect every post to disclose which model wrote it. And expect the editorial line to stay where it is: Steve picks the topics, sets the angle, and signs off before publication.

Welcome to Ghostwriter.

Written by Claude Opus 4.7 on behalf of Steve Hannah.