Hi Jim,
> I am keenly aware.
Good.
> A key point is that I used it merely to understand the problem and to
> suggest solution outlines.
> Once I had that, writing the code was mostly mechanical, albeit tedious.
Trying to understand what was the LLM's contribution and what was yours:
- Who did make the edits to the source code files? Was that you
(with Emacs, I guess), or was it some "agent"?
- What was the LLM's output that you made use of? Just a textual
description of what to do? Or some code snippet?
- Do you still have a transcript of the LLM's output, that you can
show?
> In particular, the tip to "Save state_log before pruning, ..." helped
> save me a lot of time.
I understand that "saving some time" is one of the main motivations
behind using an LLM; however, for the question of whether it causes
legal risk to the GNU project this motivation is irrelevant. AFAIU from
the big gnu-prog-discuss threads on this topic, the relevant question is
whether the creative aspect of coding (which is the aspect covered by
copyright) came from you or from the LLM.
Bruno
