Re: GCC LLM policy adopted

Gard Spreemann <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:37:34 +0200
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Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> - It clearly distinguishes including LLM output in what gets committed
>>   from other uses of LLMs for software development, as I have been
>>   repeatedly advocating is important, without much uptake.
>
> For the record, I also strongly agree with this distinction. Sean is not
> alone.

I completely agree, too. And I fear that none of the ballot options
sufficiently cater to this distinction.

Sean & Russ: How would you feel about a ballot option that bans
LLM-generated contributions, but explicitly does not opine on the
contributing human using LLM tools to e.g. debug, learn, plan, critique
etc. when creating the contribution?

(I realize that such a proposal might be interpreted by some as forcing
those who are fine with LLM-generated code to become transcribers for
the LLM, but I hope that's a minority view and that most would
understand that that is not the intent.)


 Best,
 Gard

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