I completely understand. Just to clarify, when I said it was ~40%, I didn’t mean the content was written by Claude/ChatGPT but that I took its help in deep research and writing the first drafts. The ideas, all of the code examples, the original CLAUDE.md files, the images, citations, etc are all mine.
Ok, sure, these things are hard to quantify. The main issue is that we can't ask the community to refrain from accusing authors of publishing AI-generated content if people really are publishing content that is obviously AI-generated. What matters to us is not how much AI was used to write an article, but rather how much the audience finds that the article satisfies intellectual curiosity. If the audience can sense that the article is generated, they lose trust in the content and the author, and also lose trust in HN as a place they can visit to find high-quality content.
Edit: On reflection, given your explanation of your use of AI and given another comment [1] I replied to below, I don't think this post is disqualified after all.
