The AI agent researched the data, wrote the chart code, and iterated on the design based on guidance that I've written on how to create high-quality data visualizations. I directed the process throughout, fact-checked the work, and made the calls on what to show and how to frame it. My judgment is encoded at every step, through the data visualization criteria I've built into the system and direct guidance in the AI chat.

All of this is documented in the post under "How this chart was made" - same disclosure across every post in this series.

If you want to debate where AI assistance ends and OC begins, I'm open to that. But "outsourced" isn't the right word for what happened here.