Every lesson on Frontend Hire exists because of a deliberate research process, not because a prompt was sent to a language model.
I hold two computer science degrees, one of which is from the University of Leeds, a university that takes academic integrity and plagiarism exceptionally seriously. That environment shaped how I think about intellectual honesty in a way that has stayed with me. I have also spent almost my entire career at startups, which meant my learning was never linear or narrow. New domain, new stack, new problem space, constantly. What that forces you to develop is not just knowledge but the ability to learn, the skill of figuring out what actually matters in an unfamiliar area and building genuine understanding from scratch. That is the same skill that drives the research behind every lesson here.
Before a single sentence gets written, there is a long phase of figuring out what is actually worth teaching. That means reading documentation, combing through engineering blogs, doing the exercises myself, talking to engineers who have been in the rooms where these decisions get made, and thinking hard about the mental models that separate engineers who just execute from engineers who drive outcomes. Deciding what to include (and what to leave out) is where the real work happens.
How I Use AI
I do use AI tools in my workflow. Once the research is done and I know exactly what I want to say, I use AI to help structure that material and make it easier to follow. Think of it as a writing assistant that helps me turn dense notes and rough thinking into clear, readable prose.
The writing itself, the laborious and mechanical part of turning ideas into sentences, is not where the value lives. You could hire any competent writer to do that. What you cannot shortcut is the upstream work: choosing the right topics, finding the insight worth teaching, stress-testing it against real engineering scenarios, and sequencing it in a way that actually builds understanding over time. That is the part I do myself, and it is the part that takes the most time.
What This Means for You
When you learn something on Frontend Hire, the thinking behind it is mine. The research is mine. The editorial decisions (what gets included, what gets cut, what order things go in, how deep to go) are mine. AI does not make those calls.
I believe in being transparent about this because I think it matters. There is a real difference between content that was researched and content that was generated, and I want you to know which one you are getting.
— YHR