offset mangement when there are multiple threads in a consumer

[jackvpeng]

I'm creating a wrapper on top of confluent-kafka-python to poll and process messages concurrently. They are IO-bound so this can improve throughput without increasing the number of partitions. Do I need to set enable.auto.commit to false and locally track offsets and commit them manually? Or does confluent-kafka-python already handle this and I can just set enable.auto.commit to True?

The doc says The Producer, Consumer and AdminClient are all thread safe.. Does this mean I don't need to manage offsets manually and can just run multiple threads in a consumer to process messages concurrently?

conflicting information

https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-consumer-multi-threaded-messaging/ says
When implementing a multi-threaded consumer architecture, it is important to note that the Kafka consumer is not thread safe.
but
https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python?tab=readme-ov-file#thread-safety says
The Producer, Consumer and AdminClient are all thread safe.

Is the consumer thread safe or not?