AI (specifically Claude Code, Fable and Opus models) has been an integral tool used to accelerate the development and testing of the applications and will continue to be used for managing the BOINC server backend systems. The applications have been almost entirely written by AI, while under my direct supervision and direction. I made most of the decisions on WHAT the app does, the AI is tasked with making it happen.

However, I do work in this industry (Collision Avoidance / Space Situational Awareness) with real-world NASA satellites in LEO, and I do understand the underlying modelling and science being done here. and to be clear, these are simulations of possible futures and the idea of using Monte Carlo sims is getting the probability of a future rather than a single prediction, and those odds are a precise result in their own right, especially at the scale being done here.

If the apps are AI generated, how can you trust it?
The apps have been extensively tested, personally, on my own machines to ensure that the modelling and calculations done make sense and align with the big agency models.
We checked the simulation against the models the space agencies use:
- Six agency models (NASA, ESA, UK, Japan, Italy, India) ran a common 200-year scenario in an international study (IADC). Ours gives a catastrophic collision rate within the range of theirs, the core of whether a cascade happens.
- ESA's MASTER-8: our starting population of objects 10 cm and larger is within 2% of ESA's count.
- NASA's ORDEM 3.2: our debris hit rates and impact speeds agree where the two can be compared.
- Real breakups: replaying the Fengyun-1C and Cosmos 1408 anti-satellite tests, the simulated debris clouds come down on the same timescale as the real ones.

What is not AI?
- Kessler@home is my project: the idea, the research design and every decision about how it runs are mine
- The posts I make will never be AI written and always typed by my hands and reviewed by my eyes before posting.
- Quality Control, I set the standards and testing procedures.
- The science itself comes from published research, not from AI. There is no AI in the app your computer runs.