AI Production Disclosure

This tool was built with AI assistance.

The question design, the interpretive framework, the pattern library underneath the output, and most of the written content were developed in conversation with Claude, a language model made by Anthropic. The professional judgment behind the tool — what to ask, why it matters, how to read the answers — is mine, drawn from years of working in agile practice and, more recently, from making games. The AI helped me articulate and structure things I already had views on. Sometimes it pushed back in ways that changed those views.

The questions went through multiple iterations. The anti-pattern library was built by combining my own observations with what the AI surfaced when I described the game dev contexts I'd seen or read about. The voice throughout is mine, written to a specific guide and then revised until it felt right.

I'm not obscuring any of this. The game dev community works with these tools, thinks critically about them, and deserves a straight answer about what went into something they're being asked to trust with honest information about their work. Pretending the AI wasn't involved would undermine the thing the tool is trying to do.

If you have questions about how it works or want to understand the framework behind the output, you can reach me through the contact page.