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#+title: AI Article Levels
#+date: <2026-10-15 Thu>
#+author: Tom Alexander
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LLMs are a powerful tool that are rapidly changing the tech landscape. While I recognize their value, they have created an imbalance. In the past, each article/post took more effort to produce than it took to read. Today, an LLM can generate an infinite pile of posts before lunch. While low quality and high quality posts are possible both with and without LLMs, I am going to annotate my posts with an AI disclaimer indicating the extent that AI was used for that post. You are free to ignore it or use it as a heuristic on whether reading a post is worth your time.

* AI Levels

** None

At this level, an LLM was not used for writing any part of the post, writing any part of the code, or for any sort of planning/brainstorming.

** Coach

At the "Coach" level, an LLM was used to discuss ideas and suggest actions. The article itself and any code it contains was still written by a human.

** Author

At the "Author" level, an LLM wrote some or all of the article/post, but it did not write any of the code.

** Code

At the "Code" level, an LLM wrote some or all of the code in an article/post, but it did not write the article/post.

** Full

At the "Full" level, an LLM was involved in both the writing of the article/post and the writing of the code. That could be anything from 0.01% of each being written by an LLM to 100% being written by an LLM.