Why this page exists
Most organizations quietly use AI and hope nobody asks. We’d rather say it out loud. Texas Venom is a volunteer baseball program, not a software company. AI is how a very small group of people can build and keep a site this size. A human still writes the instructions, reviews the result, and chooses when it goes live.
We wanted that to be a public fact — not a rumor, and not something we only admit if someone presses us.
How a change gets here
The loop is simple on purpose. Nothing shows up on this site just because a machine suggested it.
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We ask
Someone on our side writes instructions: what we want the site to do, who it’s for, and what “done” looks like.
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AI builds
The AI writes the code and puts the change together. Fast, thorough, and sometimes a little too confident.
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We try it
A person tests it. If it’s off, it goes back. If it holds up, it lands on a test copy of the site first — not the live one.
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Then it goes live
After that test copy looks right, we move it to the real site. That’s the one you’re on now.
A number, said out loud
As of August 2026, this website is about 115,000 lines of code. That’s team pages, donations, uniforms, photos, the tools coaches and the board use, and a lot of plumbing families never see. We’re proud of what a handful of volunteers have been able to stand up.
We’re also honest that a number that big is why this page exists. We cannot personally proofread every sentence or click every path after every change. That snapshot will go stale. We are not going to keep recounting it.
We’re small. The site is not.
This program is run by a small group of people with day jobs, kids, and baseball. We test what matters most. We do not test every word, every screen, or every path a visitor might take.
AI can get things wrong. It can invent a detail, phrase something oddly, or build a feature that works in a way nobody quite meant. When that happens, it isn’t because we don’t care. It’s because we’re few, and the site is large.
If something looks off
Please tell us. Wrong fact, odd wording, a page that doesn’t make sense, something that just feels weird — you will not be bothering anyone. You’ll be helping a small nonprofit keep its house in order.
- Use Feedback on this site (you’ll need to be signed in). That’s the fastest way to get it in front of the people who can fix it.
- Or email web-admins@texasvenom.org.
Trying to do this the right way
We use AI because it lets a handful of volunteers build something that would otherwise take a staff we don’t have. We try to use it carefully: a person in the loop, a test site before the real one, and this page so nobody has to guess.
That’s the deal. If we ever stop being able to stand behind it, we’ll change how we work — or we’ll change this page.