For until the end of the article I was thinking GCC as in Gulf Cooperation Council. No idea why, but I was surprised this being about the gcc compiler and AI rules.
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GCC steering committee announces AI policy
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#12The policy source is worth reading: https://forge.sourceware.org/redi/gcc-wwwdocs/commit/4d0793a...
> We welcome all contributors to the community even if they have not yet followed our policies; we should guide such contributors on how to do so.
Kudos to the GNU project for their attitude.
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#13>Why is anyone not surprised that some folks are not enthusiastically building their own gallows?
Their way of putting it is funny. I like this person's opinion, but I disagree with it. It's just their own framework, but I think it could also serve as a foundation for building other things.
Speaking of PRs, honestly, I've done the same thing before—it was just a one-line fix, but I asked the LLM to add 30 lines of tests just to look more professional
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#14This is a pretty good middle ground, I think. You can't prevent LLM usage and there's significant downsides to doing so universally, so restricting contributions to things that a human needs to demonstrably understand circumvents a lot of problems.
You can use an LLM and demonstrably understand the code it produces.
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#15That comment section is filled with HN types
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#16It’s definitely interesting watching the OSS and commercial world swing in seemingly opposite directions on this.
It would be nice to see some companies sharing more balanced successful practices they’ve implemented with AI
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#17The 3 big ones, Linux, GCC and Git require a human to vouch/explain the work in question.
Once the 3 big ones start using LLM to review/accept the work for speed reliability sake, who knows what is going to happen.
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#18For people who feel it's too restrictive, I wonder if a good alternative is to work on improving clang instead?
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#19The comments are worth it... the full spectrum of personalities and the hottest of takes. 10/10, would recommend to a bored friend.
Currently the top one has a nice kind of supervillain flair to it: > Denying it is denying human nature, Mr. Bond, and the gods tend to punish the hubris of denying nature.
Lwn.net is the last place I would have expected prophets to lecture us on gods plan for large language models.
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#20The comments are worth it... the full spectrum of personalities and the hottest of takes. 10/10, would recommend to a bored friend.
AI psychosis seems to be on all sides of the debate. We've truly lost our moderate speech and the ability to discuss.