Post #1602377
2026-03-10 07:42 UTC
@zerodogg @ehashman @foolishowl The problem with LLM contributions aren't the technology in itself, and people really should stop conflating issues here.
There are two major issues:
1. LLMs are explicitly positioned to replace human labour.
2. Statistically likely code produced by vague prompts are unable to reproduce the rigour of an expert writing code or specs.
Which means that the software quality suffers, and the ecosystem surrounding FLOSS gets weakened.
Those are...
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@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de 2026-03-10 07:45
@zerodogg @ehashman @foolishowl ... sufficiently "clear and present dangers", to use a political term, that FLOSS communities such as Debian *should* take a strong position on. I can't decide for Debian what that position is, but vagueness doesn't cut it.
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@az@post.lurk.org 2026-03-10 20:12
@jens @zerodogg @ehashman @foolishowl LLM generated code seems to mostly shift the labour into the reviewer - not ideal if you are maintaining an opensource project.