Re: AI contributions
José Matos <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2026-05-06 at 15:38 -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > Hi, Pavel, > > I am broadly in agreement with your analysis. Practically speaking, if > existing developers want to use AI to help them fix bugs, then I have no > problem with it. I trust all of us to review the code the same way we > usually would. It probably wouldn't hurt to have a +1 sort of policy, > the way we do just before releases, just to guarantee an additional > level of review in such cases, at least at first. It also wouldn't hurt > for people to post things, along with the patches, similar to what you > did. But I'm not sure we need to require that. I am in strong agreement with both Pavel and Riki. > Code submissions from unknown external people are a different matter. I > don't see a need to rule these out entirely, but they would need careful > review. But that's already true for contributions from such people. > Maybe review that is a bit more careful would be good. > > It's pretty freaking impressive what Claude did. I recently got sent a > paper by a colleague in which he used AI to help him prove a central > lemma. His view was that he could have done it himself, but he was a bit > rusty on certain things, and so AI made it much easier. > > Riki I also have this feeling. Yesterday I had an issue related with lambda (anonymous functions) capture in Python. For what is worth this also applies to C++ functions. Claude identified the issue and clearly stated the problem and suggested a simple solution. It is not so much that I could not do it but it would take a longer time to fix something that was tangent to the problem that I was trying to solve. My only issue with those tools is the absence, by default, of any emoticons. :-D Best regards, -- José Abílio -- lyx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel