@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
Post #425408
2026-02-26 23:31 UTC
Replies (26)
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@pinskia@hachyderm.io 2026-02-26 23:34
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social They even have a full bugzilla section: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&component=AI%20for%20Development&product=Developer%20Infrastructure
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@oblomov@sociale.network 2026-02-27 00:29
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social JFC 8-(
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@mallory@hachyderm.io 2026-02-27 00:29
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Good that they’re not pretending a machine is a person. Bad that they’re not coming up with a new git footer to document their bad decisions.
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@realaaa@mastodon.au 2026-02-27 00:57
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social thanks for the link ! Interesting, seems counter to the discussions like this one yes https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387
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@jbowen@mast.hpc.social 2026-02-27 01:00
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Yet another reason to abandon Firefox and Mozilla in general. Edit: Use NetSurf or Lynx. Or just curl or wget.
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@mmu_man@m.g3l.org 2026-02-27 01:07
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social OTOH I'd think having a real human to blame would be less bad than a machine… 🤔
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social 2026-02-27 01:09
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social "Author... " Lol The producer of a "leperous distilment" needs a better word than author. Something that says malicious laughter, incompetence and illegitimacy. Maybe Shakespeare. #ai
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@linear@nya.social 2026-02-27 01:12
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social according to my understanding of current copyright guidance in the United States, doing this means they forfeit their copyright to the entire Firefox codebase.
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@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social 2026-02-27 01:16
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social *sigh*
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@jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net 2026-02-27 01:37
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social ffs mozilla is the worst :neocat_facepalm:
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-02-27 01:37
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social oooooooohhh ffffffuuuuuuuuuu what even is this timeline I cannot any more
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@spacewizard@mas.to 2026-02-27 02:12
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social If Firefox hadn't already driven me away for good I'd be very upset
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@richardisaguyyyy@ursal.zone 2026-02-27 02:17
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social There isn't much to think about this, this is objectively not good
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@brianrepko@hachyderm.io 2026-02-27 02:36
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social the “ai agent” cannot own the copyright on the code it produces so that might be one reason not to add anything to the author list - that said any code produced needs to be identified as you might have to check if it was copied from any training code (and the license requirements of that code). pyOpenSci and rOpenSci just wrote up new policies on this.
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@yon@sakurajima.moe 2026-02-27 02:49
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Closed source who cares. But with open source if there’s a massive successful lawsuit due to the endless stealing of training material every piece of code produced from that training set is tainted. That’s something that should make open source reject all this, as a very big risk that’s not worth it. Imho.
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@zaki@plasmatrap.com 2026-02-27 03:07
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social the fact that theyre actively trying to hide this shit genuinely just disappoints me
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@spherulitic@tech.lgbt 2026-02-27 03:16
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social if nothing else this is legally dubious. AI authored content is uncopyrightable so all LLM written code is public domain.
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@Li@tech.lgbt 2026-02-27 03:27
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social im not sure this would evade detection since theres a .claude/settings.json file now explicilty telling it to do this ..
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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-02-27 04:01
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Well it can be. Maybe (but probably not) people will start to think more about the quality of code they're trying to contribute when it is their credibility and not the "xyz bots" on the line...
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@Viss@mastodon.social 2026-02-27 04:13
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social ssh xz bug here we goooooooo
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@BurritoSommelier@techhub.social 2026-02-27 05:33
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social “bug”
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@zettpunkt@mastodon.social 2026-02-27 06:48
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social As a tester I find bug reports with titles like "When an agent commits, add itself as author" (#219842) and "When an agent commits, don't add itself as author" (#2011195) highly confusing as they read like they are describing intended behaviour. But a bug report should describe unintended behaviour like "Agentic commits are not attributed to the agent". So before jumping into conclusions about the intent of the authors, I would try to clear up the actual requirements.
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@gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu 2026-02-27 06:53
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social I did read a bit further and found that it is because of the dev laziness. They are too lazy to write commit messages themselves. So they ask the LLM to write them. And then they are also too lazy to copy paste the generated text themselves, so ask claude to do that. And they are too lazy to push the commit button, so claude has to push it for them. And this change is to hide all this laziness.
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@Bredroll@mas.to 2026-02-27 07:23
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social its annoying, but i think this is a race simple ideas like this just wont win. The major problems with LLM coding tools revolve around code theft (in training data) and erosion of human skills.. Neither of which you can tell from thier outputs. By far the worst part of AI in tech is the corruption and impunity that pushes it. It is possible without that. You cant tell from the outputs any more than you can tell the political party of a developer in a patch file.
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@razze@osna.social 2026-02-27 07:34
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social this is the correct approach, if you supervise Ai to build a feature, it's on you to review the code and be responsible if stuff breaks. It would be useless to attribute everything to one Ai account and just be able to finger point at it.
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@ozzelot@mstdn.social 2026-02-27 18:42
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social mozilla fell off long ago and it seems to make no efforts to get anyone to catch it