Show HN: AI Code Rating – a 3-character disclosure of how AI was used in a repo

A Show HN poster introduced AI Code Rating (ACR), a proposed spec in which repository maintainers record a three-character rating plus a short blurb in an ACR.md file at the repo root to disclose how much code AI wrote and how closely a human reviewed it. The rating combines a maintainer-experience letter (B = "Experienced"), an AI-authored percentage band (1 = 1–25% of the code), and a review level (b = "Reviewed"), with the example DomainMOD rated "B1b"; the poster said the ACR website itself is rated B4b because AI wrote nearly all of its code and text under human direction and review. The post drew 1 point and 1 comment on Hacker News.

Hello HN Have you ever wanted to quickly determine an open source project's AI use? Me too, so I've come up with a spec that I think may help solve the issue. Maybe it'll be useful, or maybe it'll be crap, you decide AI Code Rating - Three simple characters that tell a reader who maintains a project, how much of its code is written by AI, and how closely a human checks the AI's work. That's it, that's the whole idea. Repo maintainers assign a rating and save it, along with a quick blurb about how AI was used in the project, in an ACR.md file in the root of their repo. The rating doesn't judge, it simply answers some questions at a glance. If this sounds at all interesting to you, I'd love to hear your feedback Example: DomainMOD, rated "B1b" a project I wrote and have maintained since 2010 B = "Experienced" - Works professionally in this stack. Could write the whole project unaided. 1 = "A little" - 1–25% of the code. AI wrote pieces such as tests, boilerplate, or single functions. b = "Reviewed" - Every AI change read by a person before merge. Tests where practical. Full Disclosure: The ACR website itself is rated B4b. AI wrote nearly all the code and text, directed by me, and I reviewed its work. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454286 Points: 1 Comments: 1