Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

On 12/06/2026 19:11, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> All of this talk about llm and llm reviews is off-topic for this list. Including the original email is off-topic and should not have been sent.

How so?  Adhemerval's comment mentioned LLM use for patch reviews in 
other GNU projects, which is useful information for this developer 
community.

>    Can you step down from the llm gcc working group for this email since 
> it shows a conflict of interest of prompting one product.  Plus it shows 
> poor taste of sending out an email about a non free product to a mailing 
> list about glibc development.
Visible maintainers of FOSS projects routinely get these kinds of offers 
upfront and forwarding them to community members IMO doesn't mean 
anything more than simply making others aware.  I don't see a conflict 
of interest here, but that's for the WG to decide.

Is this marketing for Anthropic?  Yes, and it is the right of the 
members of this community to reject it outright, or use it to experiment 
if they wish to, without contributing AI generated legally significant 
code to the project.

FWIW, I have a strong personal preference against using frontier LLMs. 
Maybe I'm more acceptable as a LLM WG member because I align with your 
position? ;)

Sid