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The footer of every page here says 100% human-made content. This page is what that claim covers, and what it does not.

What the claim covers

Every word you read on this site is written by me. Every photograph is one I took. Every drawing is one I drew. Nothing here is generated, and nothing here is rewritten, expanded, summarised or “improved” by a machine before you see it. If a sentence is clumsy, it is clumsily mine.

That is the whole claim, and I would rather state it narrowly and keep it than state it broadly and hedge.

What it does not cover

The site is delivered by software, and software is not writing. The engine that turns these files into pages is khosra, which I build — and I build it with an AI assistant, deliberately and daily. It resizes my photographs, derives the addresses, renders the Bengali, and puts the bytes on the wire. None of that touches what the words say.

I draw the line at the text and the pictures because that is where the line means something. A reader cares whether a person wrote what they are reading. A reader does not care who wrote the code that chose the image width — and pretending otherwise would make the claim decorative rather than true.

Two consequences worth being explicit about:

• The engine’s own repository is not covered by this claim. Its code and its documentation are written with assistance, and its commit history says so plainly.
• Machine translation is not used here either. The Bengali pages are written in Bengali, not translated into it. Where a page exists in one language only, it exists in one language only.

Why say it at all

Because it is becoming worth saying. The claim costs me nothing to make and is easy to check against my own history, and a site that says nothing on the subject is now ambiguous in a way it was not a few years ago.

If you find something here that looks machine-made, that is a bug in the claim or a bug in my writing, and I would like to know which. My address is on the connect page.