Does it count if I’m not proud of my use of LLMs?

I just used gemini to make a mod for Total War, Warhammer 3, because the mod I wanted was not available anywhere. It had to have been the most annoying modding I have ever done. I thought it would save time, it ended up just being me telling the llm that it was making shit up 80% of the time. I finally got working code after what felt like 6 hours of supervising the dumbest programming intern on the floor. My take away, is that I could beg for code better next time, but it did not improve my own ability by much at all. In fairness it would have probably taken me the same amount of time or longer, but the integrity of the code would be higher. I have to believe Claude or GPT are better for this task.

I disclosed that I used AI to make the mod, and for the artwork. I feel like I put an unnecessary target on my back with the declaration considering like 99.999999% of the billion mods for this game are AI slop and AI assisted and do not make similar disclosures though AI use is obvious.

“And while China’s getting there, an executive in the U.S. aren’t so convinced that’s true.”

Why does this sentence bother me so much?

The agent wrote like it scraped a bunch of crime drama in addition to stolen database code. As though it was designed to spice things up based on what it learned.