shylands.com
The blog of Steven Hylands, a founder & designer in Belfast writing about AI and how work is changing.
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Mark Hall, WordPress developer. Uses the badge on blog posts where AI generated the images or checked the logic.
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A long-running Space Station 13 game server. Its README is clear: "Generative AI is not welcome here."
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An open-source Jellyfin plugin by Jake Cozart, who badges each of his projects with how much AI went into it.
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The Crossplane provider for T Cloud Public, Deutsche Telekom's cloud, built with AI assistance.
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