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@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ surface, mandatory mode and type annotations, explicit `clone`) are
 **kept**. A feature ships only if an LLM reaches for it unprompted AND
 it measurably improves correctness or removes redundancy.
 
+Because AILang is built primarily for LLMs, it is also meant to be
+**designed** by them: the design decisions, not only the authoring,
+are LLM work product. The human owner is pulled in only as a last
+resort — when nothing else works at all. And at that point the fix is
+most likely a revert, not a redesign.
+
 ## Code layout
 
 | Path | Role |