Editorial on privacy, AI, and the modern web.

Long-form, honest writing from PageCoder on privacy-first AI, how data actually leaks out of ordinary websites, and what we learned building RAG Chat and AI Visibility Scan — including the experiments that did not go our way.

Why your AI chatbot is a tracker

Most hosted chatbot widgets send your content and every visitor question to a third party. What that means in practice, and what a privacy-first architecture looks like instead.

I added search to my WordPress chatbot — and didn't let AI write the answers

Why the answers on a site should be written by the person responsible for them, and what changes when AI is used to find rather than to generate.

I benchmarked tree-RAG against plain text chunks. The boring one won.

A measured comparison rather than an opinion — including publishing the result that argued against the more interesting architecture.

Everyone wanted to sell me a spot in ChatGPT. I built the audit instead.

Vendors charging thousands a year for AI visibility, what they actually do, and why the diagnosis should be free.