AI vs Human classification issue in VSCode

[1chooo]

Hi WakaTime Team,

I’d like to report a potential issue regarding the AI vs Human classification in the VSCode plugin.

In one of my recent commits, Git shows:

10 files changed +939 -11

However, in the WakaTime dashboard, it reports:

Human: +456 -6
AI additions: 15 0

The issue is that the changes in this commit were entirely AI-generated. In fact, in several recent commits, I’ve had thousands of lines generated or heavily modified by AI, yet the dashboard only records a few hundred lines — and often categorizes most of them as Human instead of AI.

This makes me wonder:

1. How exactly does WakaTime determine whether a change is classified as AI vs Human?
2. Under what conditions will modifications be counted as “AI additions”?
3. Is there a known issue where large AI-generated diffs are only partially tracked?

As a long-time developer, I genuinely care about accurately attributing credit. If a significant portion of my work is AI-assisted, I want that to be reflected correctly in the stats.

I’d appreciate any clarification, and hopefully this can be fixed if it’s a bug.

Thank you for your work on WakaTime!
Best regards,
@1chooo

[alanhamlett]

Should be fixed in v26.0.0 released today. Previously we used heuristics to detect AI Coding, but now we're parsing Agent session transcript logs for accurate diffs of files changed by AI. Currently we support Codex and Claude.

[1chooo]

I think there is still not working as v26.0.0

in cursor it shows: 1955 lines editted

However, in wakatime:

[alanhamlett]

Can you try the latest extension version and see if it's accurate now?

[1chooo]

Hi @alanhamlett

I have tried two cases; however it did not seem well thought.

I add a prompt to let cursor agent write the code and let it work alone

Then there is no changes in wakatime dashboard, also it is still counted as Human Additions

So I tried again with another prompt to let the cursor agent work:

there is still no changing in wakatime.

Thank you for your work, and have a nice weekend!

[alanhamlett]

How about now with the new release?

[1chooo]

There is still no AI generated though...

[alanhamlett]

Version 29.0.2 fixes it... we're now parsing Cursor's global sqlite3 database for transcript logs.

[alanhamlett]

Had to disable Cursor AI codegen detection because of high CPU load #479

[darrinholst]

I just turned these integrations on the other day. I use claude code and neovim. The dashboard is showing no human activity. (I don't they've taken over completely quite yet 😆)