Tail: A 0–5 scale for how much AI wrote this

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Why does it matter if code is written by LLM?

Knowing authorship has long been an important signal for judging work. Sometimes we specifically want authorship to be anonymous -- in peer review or contest judging, for example. But in many cases knowing authorship is useful. We are now in an era where that signal is (deliberately or not) obscured.

I dont care who/what wrote it, all until it good work. You are free to spend 10 hours on agents rules/constraints/... and then tell them to write it, or write it by yourself. Whatever you as author find most efficient.

But if you try to delegate your work to reviewer, by dumping slop and waiting for reviwer to catch issues, so you could feed that in LLM and again do nothing, your contributions should not be accepted anymore. And this is not generated code issue, code generation just make it more common. Some people will always think they are smartest while everyone else is dumb, can't fix that.

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