--- title: AI Stance description: "" lang: en date: 2026-06-23T02:59:00.000Z tags: - LLM - Meta - Standards --- June 23, 2026 Inspired by [Armin Ronacher's AI Transparency Statement](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/ai-transparency/) I use coding agents every day, but never use LLMs for writing or anything that's meant to be read by humans. I occasionally make a throwaway picture (like an avatar). I do use them to fix idiotic ESL mistakes I sometimes make. I use … and — via the Compose key in Linux since the 2010s. I have a background in traditional publishing and believe that three dots (...) are not an ellipsis (…) and never will be. ## Ground rules ### Disclose for humans Every human deserves to know the source of your information, and has the right to ignore an LLM answer without reading it. It's a good rule even for non-AI applications; I am not reading your "russia today" quote, mate. So, an LLM response should be marked with the same effort as "trigger warnings" or at least [use some quoting standard like APA](https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/quotations). I make an exception for code, because the clanker that did some menial task doesn't deserve a "Co-Authored" byline. Also, no one reads your code anyway (sad, but true). ### Accepting full responsibility An agent/model didn't fuck up. You did. ### Never give up control Don't trust them fully; always have a deterministic pipeline to check their work. ## More personally I dislike the misleading "AI" term and people who are *really* into it. Although, I believe any technology can produce obnoxious zealots. Just look at crypto. Maybe people should look into who raised all of those assholes, instead of screaming at a chain of hashes or matrix multipliers. I accept LLMs as a genie that can't be put back into the bottle. Holy wars about LLMs are boring. I do believe that companies behind so-called "SOTA models" are not to be trusted and LLMs should be self-hosted and sovereign. At the same time, the whole "they drink all our water" trope is a good way to detect virtue-signalling idiots. Most of them can't distinguish an artesian well from an Abyssinian one and have zero interest in the state of local aquifers. ## Projectfile I use the ["org.projectfile.ai" extension](https://projectfile.org/extensions/org/projectfile/ai/) in my projectfile schema, which generates an "AI POLICY.md" document in all my projects. ## Tags [LLM](/tag/llm/), [Meta](/tag/meta/), [Standards](/tag/standards/) ## Navigation [← What is image distillation?](/post/what-is-image-distillation/) | [Why You Should Care About RISC-V →](/post/why-you-should-care-about-risc-v/)