Re: GR -- Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

Yes, on codeberg I've enabled CI only where it's complicated to run it
locally. But where a simple "make test" can easily run locally I
haven't enabled it because, would it really add anything?

Il giorno ven 20 feb 2026 alle ore 17:31 Andrey Rakhmatullin
<[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 11:23:09AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> >But as you say, for some people the arguments they make against the
> >use of "AI" (whatever the hell that means) is about the consequences,
> >either real or imagined or projected, that they think the technology
> >will have.
> >
> >And the problem here is that it's still early days, and some of the
> >initial estimates about (for example) water usage of AI queries seem
> >to have been half-baked, or at least, highly disputed.  For example,
> >instead of a 16 ounce of bottled water, there are other estimates that
> >put it at 45 mililiters, or even 0.26 milliliters.  One of the reasons
> >behind the wide disparity is about how to account for the cost of
> >training the LLM.  That's a one-time cost, and as the number of
> >queries go up, that cost will get amortized and go down significantly.
> >It's also the case that if you believe that the LLM is going to be
> >trained *anyway*, the water savings of foregoing the use of the LLM
> >for code reviews, or cherry-picking of a patch, or even vibe-coding is
> >probably going to be in the mililiter range as opposed to the entire
> >bottle of water range.
> >
> >I think people also tend to under-estimate how much water gets used
> >when creating their pair of jeans (estimates range from 4,000 liters
> >to 10,000 liters), or how much water they use when taking their daily
> >showers, or how much CO2 they produce when travelling to conferences
> >or visiting their families.  (OMG!  An Open Source maintainer is
> >travelling all over the world to go to conferences!  Let's ban the use
> >of their software in Debian!!  *That* will solve the global warming
> >crisis....)
>
> Another interesting comparison is resources spent on CI. So far I see that
> both OSS and commercial development adopts more and more CI and QA tools,
> spending more and more CPU cycles on running them during the development.
> That, of course, is true for Debian too.
>
> --
> WBR, wRAR



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