Re: LLM Commit in upstream `master`?!

Hello Sean,

But this begs the question: why would someone with commit access try to edit/prepare a commit for Emacs when there is an explicit policy from refraining to use LLMs for commits/patches?

I can understand that Yuan might've forgotten and pushed the commit by mistake, or their agent did so, but the fact that the agent had such permission in the first place, is very troubling. If people with commit access are allowing agents to edit/prepare commits then it is a risk. I don't think this should be desirable in the light of the current interim policy.

Regards,

On 25 July 2026 17:00:03 GMT+05:30, Sean Whitton <[email protected]> wrote:
>Christine Lemmer-Webber [25/Jul  7:09am -04] wrote:
>> I, too, am disturbed by this. I'm also not a fan of the way that
>> "Co-authored by Claude Fable 5" reminds me of "sent from my iPhone", it
>> ends up being a marketing system for these organizations.
>>
>> On the fediverse it was also pointed out that the AuthorDate is listed
>> as May 20th 2026:
>>
>>   https://goto.boserup.eu/@ah/statuses/01KYC7QYHVEEF2WD8ZHTFV7YDD
>>
>> This seems impossible, "Claude Fable 5" was not even available for
>> public use by then.
>>
>> What is going on here?
>
>Perhaps Yuan started working on it by hand in May and then the LLM was
>used to amend the commit the later.
>
>I'm sure that this was just a mistake or misunderstanding.
>
>Yuan, I think we have to revert this commit, but before doing so, can
>you explain what happened here?
>
>-- 
>Sean Whitton
>

Divya Ranjan Pattanaik

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