Re: LLM Commit in upstream `master`?!

> On Jul 25, 2026, at 4:30 AM, 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?


Oops, I’m so sorry. I did use it to fixup the commit message since I made a bunch of small changes to the patch before applying, and I thought it’ll be a good use case. And for full disclosure, nowadays I often ask LLM to review my patch before I apply them, so many of things I changed are pointed out by LLM, but I did take care to hand write the code and comments etc.

Also, for my personal code (init file, etc) I’ve been using LLM a lot, but for patch submitted to upstream I’m still hand-writing the code.

Yuan