GMOOCAHow we use AI
GMOOCA is built with a lot of help from AI tools. We'd rather tell you that up front than pretend otherwise.
Where this started
Gaming Manager began nearly ten years ago as a hand-written program, pieced together from YouTube tutorials, Stack Overflow answers and a lot of trial and error on a real machine. It worked, sometimes, and progress was painfully slow.
AI coding assistants changed that. We aren’t a big engineering team, and we don’t pretend to be. Without AI tools, GMOOCA would not be anywhere near where it is today.
How we use it
We use AI assistants, mainly Anthropic’s Claude, across almost everything we make:
- Software. Writing and reviewing code for Gaming Manager, the license server and the SAS Gateway firmware, and writing the tests that check it.
- Hardware. Researching parts, reviewing circuit designs and catching mistakes before a board is made.
- Documentation. Drafting user guides, setup procedures and the plain-language guides on this site.
- This website. Its design, code and much of its writing were produced with AI help.
What stays with people
AI drafts and suggests. People decide and answer for the result.
- We decide what gets built and how it should work for owners and operators.
- We test on real machines. Protocol features are proven on machines on our own bench before release, not just in an AI’s answer.
- We review what goes out. Code, guides and announcements are checked by a person before they ship.
- We own the mistakes. If something we publish is wrong, that’s on us, not the tool. Tell us at sales@gmooca.org and we’ll fix it.
AI in the community
When the forums open, there’s no rule against AI-generated content. AI is a great tool, and we’d be hypocrites to ban it. We ask for one thing: tag it.
- If an AI tool wrote or substantially wrote your post, answer, guide or code, say so: a line like “Drafted with AI help” or “AI-generated, checked against my machine” is enough.
- Check technical advice before you post it when you can. A confident wrong answer can damage a machine or hurt someone working inside one.
- You’re responsible for what you post, whoever or whatever wrote the first draft.
Forgot to tag something? No problem. A moderator will ask you to add a label. The point is that readers know what they’re looking at.