[apienx]

No, thank you.

"The goal of Gentoo is to design tools and systems that allow a user to do that work as pleasantly and efficiently as possible, as they see fit." https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy/

And this is what Torvalds had to say about LLM-enhanced submissions to the kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7-gJicosyA

[gritzko]

Torvalds is cautiously optimistic, hopes that AI will be able to spot bugs in the code. That kind of AI I did not see yet. All the concerning issues from the Gentoo post I can see on a regular basis. For example, plausibly looking BS or AI spam. It is all delivered to my doorstep, so to say. That is the issue.

[lemagedurage]

ChatGPT3.5 already spots bugs, e.g. when I swap the order of conditions in fizzbuzz. An error that a human could make. We've been at the point where AI can help spot bugs for a while already.

AI can be used poorly, AI can be used well.

[Tooster]

Someone committing poor quality LLM generated code and deeming it appropriate for review could create equally bad, if not worse, handwritten code. By extension, anyone who merges poor quality LLM code could merge equally poorly handwritten code. So ultimately it's up to their judgement and about the trust in the contribution process. If poor quality code ended up in the product, then it's the process that failed. Just because someone can hit you with a stick doesn't mean we should cut down the trees — we should educate people to stop hitting others with sticks instead.

"Banning LLM content" is in my opinion an effort spent on the wrong thing. If you want to ensure the quality of the code, you should focus on ensuring the code review and merge process is more thorough in filtering out subpar contributions effectively, instead of wasting time on trying to enforce unenforceable policies. They only give a false sense of trust and security. Would "[x] I solemnly swear I didn't use AI" checkbox give anything more than a false sense of security? Cheaters gonna cheat, and trusting them would be naive, politely said...

Spam... yeah, that is a valid concern, but it's also something that should be solved on organizational level.

[ctrw]

I have llm very patiently explain to me why I crashed prod when I used the wrong conversion factor between ms and mus and us. Thanks SI very cool that one of the more often used units needs unicode to be entered into code.

Llm are absolutely helping with catching buts and code quality already.

[keybored]

What does their philosophy for the end-user have to do with their development practices?