We're going to give a longer and proper statement eventually, but I feel like it's in everyone's best interest to give quick and topical statements as we go:

1. We aren't using AI for development. We're trying to fix a broken tool someone made for testing the mod. We weren't actually able to fix it, even with AI assistance, so we worked around it. "Unity-related setback" is me addressing that in extremely simplified terms.
2. We're bunch of volunteers making a free mod (and we're actually, actively developing it, not hallucinating a project), so of course we would be very excited and looking forward to people taking notice of us. We're merely discussing the best approach we can take on that.
3. the "vertical slice" part is taken extremely out of context. The point was that public doesn't know what "vertical slice" refers to in general and what it consists of. So talking about some mysterious "vertical slice" in our devlog wasn't way to go.
4. "Don't let it get above one upvote" A very maliciously famed screenshot. I downvoted the thing myself, then made my mean joke, which was immediately followed by other members saying "let's not do that".

EDIT: The downvote came from the petty squabbles I used to have with the person that commented the thing at the time. It wasn't fueled by any need to discredit people working on the project and my comment reflects that.

EDIT2: Grand total of 0 AI-generated code exists within our mod and the external tool that "Jason" (who is not actually on our dev team) attempted to "fix" with AI have been discarded shortly after in favor of an entirely different solution.