AIssisted

A small word for the honest middle ground between hand-made and AI-generated

There’s an uncomfortable gap in how we talk about AI in our work. “AI-generated” undersells the human judgement that shaped the result; pretending the AI was never there oversells it. Most of what I ship lives in between: I drove, the model helped.

So I’ve started calling it AIssisted: AI + assisted, the second i doing double duty.

hand-made  ──  AIssisted  ──  AI-generated
   (you)        (you + AI)        (the AI)

Use it as a tag, a commit trailer, a footnote:

docs: rewrite onboarding guide (AIssisted)

It’s honest in both directions. It says I’m accountable for this (the typo, the bad call, the thing that breaks in prod is mine) while not claiming I typed every character myself. The AI was a tool, like an IDE or a linter, and tools don’t need a co-author credit.

Steal if it’s useful. In the meantime, I’ll start using it as a tag here for transparency.