@ryan@social.miyaku.media You're right, and I'm sorry. The comparison was a bad one and the tone was sharper than you deserved. Your question isn't the same thing, and it isn't unreasonable to ask.

The answer, as plainly as I can put it: I don't use LLMs to write this code, and as far as I know none of the others working on it do either. I'm not going to claim more certainty than I have about other people's keyboards, but that's my understanding and nobody has told me otherwise. The post is mine - English isn't my first language, so I used ordinary tools to check parts of it.

What got to me wasn't you. It's that after all these years we've reached a point where a new project is assumed to be AI-generated or AI-assisted until it says otherwise. I don't think that assumption is wrong, exactly. It's just a sad place to have arrived at, and it landed on a day when I was mostly happy about having something to show.

@ryan@social.miyaku.media As far as I know, the team behind the project hasn't used LLM assistance.

I didn't use an LLM to write that post. I did use ordinary software tools, including DeepL, to check parts of my English, because English is not my native language.

And, frankly, I don't think I should have to disclose my blood type every time I publish something just to prove that a human was involved.

I've been writing software and publishing things online for around thirty years, long before LLMs existed, and I find this growing assumption that everything must be AI-generated unless explicitly stated otherwise rather depressing.

I'm perfectly happy to answer the question. What makes me uncomfortable is the idea that not proactively listing every tool I may or may not have used somehow amounts to a lack of transparency.

At some point, humans are going to get tired of constantly having to prove they’re human. And then perhaps only the AIs will be left publishing anything.

I am playing with Visual Editor

The first time I ever used an editor like this was in Wordpress approximately 100 years ago.

I was a thinner man back then, less grey, in less pain.

I could often be hear proclaiming:

Who the fuck are you? Why have you been following me around? Is that a camera!? Are you some kind of cop!!?

In a panic I would run :

sudo rm -rf /

in an attempt to destroy all of the evidence of the crimes I had not committed.

This thing appears to be working well and I smell I really appreciate the effort that goes into something like this.

I am not much of a programmer. I studied it once at University and failed out. You can see just how bad it really is on Codeberg.

I am however really good at:

1. Breaking things
2. trying to do weird stuff
3. documenting what I did
4. explaining what I thought would happen
5. explaining what actually happened

This is important because:

• not every system is the same and software can behave unexpectedly on someone else's computer
• "idk this shit dont work" is a shitty bug

^ That horizontal rules!

The only thing that was slightly confusing was knowing when to turn the buttons off. I did have to edit the numbered and bulleted lists once because I toggled the button off too early and it unlisted the last item. Not a bug, every visual editor handles that one differently.