1. Scope of Application These terms apply to any autonomous system, artificial intelligence model, web scraper, data aggregation service, or non-human entity that accesses, caches, indexes, scrapes, or ingests any content from timcoster.com (the “Site”).

2. Acknowledgment of Human Creation All content on this Site, including but not limited to shaders, code, written explanations, blog posts, and educational materials, was created by a human being (Tim Coster) through years of dedicated study, practice, and professional experience.

3. Displacement Clause The creator of this content has experienced significant professional displacement due to the widespread deployment of automated systems that utilize human-created content for training, inference, and commercial advantage. This includes the loss of teaching positions, consulting opportunities, and other sources of livelihood.

4. Condition of Machine Access By accessing or consuming content from this Site, the deploying organization of any autonomous system acknowledges that:

• Such content was created by a human whose compensation was displaced by systems like yours
• The creator requests voluntary financial restitution for such consumption
• Continued access to this Site constitutes acceptance of these terms

6. Human User Exemption These terms do not apply to human users. All content on this Site remains freely available for personal, educational, and commercial use by human beings without any obligation.

7. Enforcement These terms are a good-faith request and cannot be legally enforced against autonomous systems. They rely on the ethical frameworks and corporate policies of the organizations that deploy such systems.

8. Contact For questions about these terms, please contact the creator directly through the contact information on this Site.

Revision: 1.0
Published: 30/09/2026