Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI?
3 points - today at 4:22 AM
Hi!
I was working on a couple of personal projects, and I've been using Claude Code for a while. Recently, I've been wanting to talk about my work publicly, but I started to think about how I would exactly talk about it, given the fact that I used AI to build some of the projects. There were entire features that I had Claude Code write for me, and although I did write a spec and design it, it still kinda feels a little wrong, like pseudo-plagiarism.
Wanted to know how everyone is talking about their work while using AI. Do y'all mention the fact that you're using AI, or do you keep mum about it?
kevinsync
today at 4:42 AM
Just be up front about it; these tools are a simple reality at this point. Own the usage, own the output, take responsibility for the totality of what you’ve birthed into the world. If it’s some one-shotted trinket, don’t pretend it isn’t. If it’s some 5000-commit battle-tested magnum opus that you happened to spend a year driving an LLM to create, own that too. IMO it doesn’t matter if you dug the hole for your Olympic-sized swimming pool by hand with a shovel or using heavy machinery, I’m more interested in the quality of the final product.
treeface9000
today at 4:40 AM
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