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··· 135 135 `ocamlformat` may be useful to get badly messed up code to a baseline unformatted state, 136 136 from which human formatting can be added where needed. 137 137 138 + ## AI-generated Code 139 + 140 + Contributing to Eio should not be done _solely_ using "AI tools" such as ChatGPT. This is for a few reasons: 141 + 142 + 1. **It obfuscates how you think**. Purely AI-generated code tells us little about how you think and the problems you might be having. This makes it harder to provide good feedback on PRs and issues. 143 + 2. **It is often more work to review**. Particularly for the OCaml ecosystem and libraries like Eio, it seems that these tools are not very good and generate a lot of believable code that is in actual fact completely wrong. PR comments and the code submitted with them can say completely different things. 144 + 3. **It is a grey area for licensing**. Models like ChatGPT have been trained on lots of code with different licenses and has been known to simply copy code as an answer to a prompt. We would like to avoid this headache as best we can. 145 + 146 + Use AI tools, if you wish, to help you understand OCaml and Eio. Do not offload all of the work of a PR or a comment to these tools. 147 + 138 148 [dscheck]: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/dscheck 149 +