From 8b4e1b7b9ce14b984a9002b65ac52ade013572f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Kinny Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 17:10:02 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: acknowledge AI-assisted authorship at top of README MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add a 🤖 blockquote between the tagline and the existing ⚠️ heads-up. First substantive thing a visitor reads: most of the code and nearly all of the docs in this repo were written by AI agents under direction, framed honestly so the project's nature is clear up-front. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 89fd4a8..ffa8a59 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ **Your self-hosted [StackChan](https://github.com/m5stack/StackChan) robot assistant — kid-safe by default, hackable by design, private by architecture.** +> 🤖 **AI-assisted project.** Most of the code and nearly all of the docs in this repo were written by AI agents (primarily Claude Code) under my direction. I've been coding professionally for 15+ years; Dotty is one of a few side projects I'm using to learn the current generation of AI/LLM tooling first-hand — what the tools do well, where they break, and how to drive them. Feedback on the output very welcome. + > ⚠️ **Heads up: this is not a stable project yet.** Dotty is buggy, frequently broken, and actively changing day-to-day. End-to-end behaviour works on the maintainer's hardware but regressions land all the time, the API and config surface shifts without notice, and a fresh deploy on someone else's gear has not been verified. Treat this as a hobby-grade work-in-progress, not a polished product. Bugs, PRs, and "this didn't work for me" issues all very welcome. 🍺☕ If you do try a fresh end-to-end deploy, please get in touch — I'll buy you a beer or a coffee. The best place to ask questions, get help, or show off a build is the [Dotty community Discord](https://discord.gg/7sKE5c6A). > > **Known rough edges:** face emoji rendering is missing visual differentiation for 4 of 9 emotions (sad / surprise / love / laughing); sound-direction localizer has a hardware-AEC-related left-bias on M5Stack CoreS3 (energy detection works, direction is unreliable); kid-voice ASR accuracy on SenseVoice has a kid-speech gap that whisper.cpp will close in a follow-up.