Post #956208

2026-04-06 15:34 UTC

@ff3@fosstodon.org I'd say nay every time ! For people not fluent in English, I would believe they should just write in a good ol' translator what the bug is in their mother tongue, and then translate to English. It won't be perfect but at least it would really be the issue they had and not a complete exposé of a bug that may be totally invented by the AI... I think everything would be better if it is kind of the words of the person who saw the bug. Even if the translation is weird I think the maintainer would have less work decrypting an imperfect translation than a perfectly-written but wrong bug report

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@nanianmichaels@tech.lgbt 2026-04-06 16:34

@catnux@social.linux.pizza @ff3@fosstodon.org Seconded, nay on any use of AI to submit bug reports. You found a bug? Great! You write down on your own words what the bug is and how to trigger it, or what you were doing/trying to do when the bug happened. If needed, send it through an online translator to match the language the dev works in. From that description, even if it's not too precise, the dev will at least have a general idea of what's going on, and likely what might be causing the bug (unless they're vibe-coding the whole thing, but in that case good luck, but that's not the case with Firefly). Which means the dev will either go "aha!" and find where the bug is, or request more information to drill down to the exact cause. That's IMO a better use of a dev's time than having them slog through several pages of slop, which may or may not even be relevant.

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