alt Hacker NewsRelated: I find this self-assessed AI level for contributions [1] to be extremely useful, both professionally and personally, to communicate the level of AI assistance so that the person on the receiving end can evaluate how much time & effort they want to spend understanding my code.
[1]: https://www.visidata.org/blog/2026/ai/#self-assessed-ai-leve...
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chrisjj • today at 3:50 PM
> this self-assessed AI level for contributions [1] to be extremely useful
Why would you trust the bot to self-assess truthfully?
That's like trusting a spammer to tag his emails as spam.
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This is great. There's a big difference between levels 2-4 (where I generally operate) and levels 7-8 (where I see a lot of others operate), and I like how this level system makes that explicit.