Re: Merging AI-generated program code

On 02/06/2026 02:13, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM Flaming Hakama by Elaine <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Current Lilypond Pipeline Issue
>>
>> I'd like to return to the actual concern:  is our workflow of automatically
>> integrating every contribution unless flagged by reviewers broken?
>>
>> I wonder if we can be more clear about it since there are two implications
>> in this concern.
>>
>> <SNIP>
> 
> Thank you, Elaine, for drilling down and distilling the issues as you see
> them.  I feel like I understand the issues much better after reading your
> email.
> 
> I particularly like that for both pipelines, you view reviewers' time as
> valuable.  And from what I have read about companies using agent-generated
> code, the bottleneck has moved from coding to reviewing; and reviewing has
> become much more difficult.
> 
> I find your suggestions promising as a starting path for moving forward.
> I would also ask reviewers to be less strict about style standards etc 
if the PR is a pretty self-contained extension.

Yes I get we want consistency, but if we have a way of accepting PRs 
with "style concerns" etc, then good working code can be accepted for 
later rework. And as I say, if it's standalone and never gets that work, 
it doesn't impact on the core code.

Cheers,
Wol