I had previously communicated my wish to distance myself from my former academic environment. Several years later, I was nevertheless contacted regarding the continued use of software code that I had contributed to a research project. The communication referenced a future publication idea associated with Prof. Andreas Holzinger: https://www.aholzinger.at/. Although the exchange was professional and my decision not to participate as a co-author was respected (after 2 times), I found the contact personally difficult because it required me to revisit a professional context from which I had consciously withdrawn 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-techn-dipl-ing-anna-saranti-865b7812a/overlay/Position/1984447253/treasury?profileId=ACoAAB_aVc0BPvXpp2N00uIlfubK2y_MbbzrDYw.
Given the capabilities of modern AI-assisted software development tools, I personally did not consider my continued involvement to be technically necessary and therefore granted permission for the code to be reused without further participation on my part.
