AI use

The following details to which extent (if at all) AI is being used in the creation and maintenance of the software. It applies to all files and content in this project’s Git repositories, all releases on GitHub and elsewhere, all content on this website, all public-facing communication, and all notes and documentation, past and present.

This page is updated whenever this changes. The last updated date can be found at the bottom of the page.

In short:

Any AI/LLM tools used in the project were limited to standard productivity and engineering functions (e.g., formatting, testing, applying repetetive code changes) and did not generate original content. All intellectual property belongs to the authors listed in the LICENSE and/or authors whose names are present in Git commits.

Never

AI is NEVER used to:

• Create, or originate any core concepts, ideas, conclusions, designs, decisions
• Create, or edit code without active and thorough human oversight and review
• Create intellectual property
• Contribute to creative direction
• Assert the quality or correctness of code or enact final technical judgement
• Generate entire libraries
• Write this document
• Come up with ideas for library features
• Create git tags or decide when to create them
• Publish releases or decide what constitutes a release
• Act on behalf of the author(s) online
• Author or edit issues
• Create any GPG or SSH signed tags, commits, or other signed or verified artifacts
• Run unattended to complete a task (vibe coding)

Sometimes

AI is SOMETIMES (but not often) used to:

• Review code and make suggestions (but not implement them)
• Review design decisions
• Generate helper macros (does not include _IMPL, _DECL, etc. macros of macro-code-generated libraries)
• Author unit-tests
• Write or edit documentation
• Apply refactoring which is too complex for search & replace
• Act as a rubber ducky for debugging and designing
• Write CSS for this website

Often

AI is OFTEN used to:

• Author and edit files as part of the build system for tests
• Author and edit scripts used as part of CI/CD and continuous testing, e.g. those used to determine code coverage and other metrics
• Ensure consistent documentation style
• Generate example programs for testing code during development (these files are not usually committed)
• Reformat existing documentation to other styles, e.g. converting header file doc comments to README files

Notes and disclaimers

If you wish to use this AI use document format on your website, please feel free to do so. You can credit by linking back to this page but you don’t have to. You may consider this AI use page as CC0 licensed.

AIs/LLMs used are:

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT (various models)
• GitHub’s Copilot (various GPT and Claude models)
• Local models

AI training is turned off where possible.

We try to mark fully/mostly AI generated files, such as scripts, explicitly. We don’t always remember to do this, and we do not require it of ourselves. We also keep no list of AI generated files or similar. If you want to be perfectly sure that you use/run no AI generated code, use only the libraries themselves and none of the auxiliary scripts and other files.

If we missed something, please contact us.