Re: LLM Commit in upstream `master`?!

> On Jul 25, 2026, at 12:10 PM, Yuan Fu <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jul 25, 2026, at 4:30 AM, Sean Whitton <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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

And reading the thread more, I’m a bit confused: does the hand-written policy apply to commit messages? My understanding is that all code and prose must by hand-written. Sorry if I’m not catched up on the policy.

Yuan