Post #1059092
2026-03-22 21:59 UTC
@corbet It could be one more facet of our looming neo-feudal moment. Bespoke, tested code for the elites, slop-upon-slop code for the peasants.
I suppose some people will surely turn to LLMs to help navigate the social "are you serious" gauntlet.
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@puppethead@ieji.de 2026-03-22 23:08
@WesternInfidels @corbet Mail servers use of "greylisting" (initially denying suspect connections and then let the retry through) helps avoid this "drive-by" kind of traffic. Maybe need something similar for PRs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting_(email)
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@corbet@social.kernel.org 2026-03-23 01:05
@WesternInfidels I've seen stories of maintainers who have found themselves talking to a contributor who is just relaying questions to the LLM and feeding the answers back. Haven't been there myself, yet, so far as i know...