AI usage in the Jekyll project

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Hello,

I’m looking to migrate my site away from Hugo. A major sticking point for me is that I do not want to use software that is built on AI-generated code.

Thus, I would like to ask if, and to what extent, Jekyll’s devs use AI.

My own research so far:

  • The contributor guidelines do not mention AI.
  • The Github repo does not show any obvious traces of AI use like agent prompts or commits that are credited to AI agents.

I’d really appreciate a clear statement on this. Things here do look like a step up from Hugo, but explicit confirmation would be nice.

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I have the same question. I was using Bludit and they’re writing code with Claude and reviewing with CodeRabbit so I am looking for a replacement. I also didn’t see anything in the Jekyll repo to suggest that LLMs are writing code but a clear answer would be helpful

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How did you figure out that Hugo is being coded using AI ?

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Is your problem about AI itself or projects using it? I feel like you have a bone to pick with projects using AI

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For the record, I have clobbered together my own static site generator (highly specialized to my specific needs, so extremely simplified) and no longer plan to use Jekyll.

So as far as I am concerned, the thread is done.

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I saw that a recent commit had added AI prompts to the repo, asked the lead dev about it on the forum and got banned. No reason was given at first but after reaching out to the mod team on multiple different platforms in the course of several days, I was eventually told that asking about AI usage was “borderline trolling” and “off-topic” (I responded to a changelog which contained “Added CLAUDE.md” as one of its items but clearly, the hugo lead dev and I have different definitions of “off-topic”.).

The hugo lead dev later clarified in a github issue that he does use AI.

The contribution guidelines for Hugo also allow AI usage for contributors outside the core dev team (i.e. external pull requests).

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