Re: GCC LLM policy adopted

Gard Spreemann <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:08 +0200
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Aigars Mahinovs <[email protected]> writes:

> You've missed significant exceptions that GCC policy grants

I wasn't specifically referring to the GCC policy at all. I was agreeing
with and picking up on Sean and Russ' about the importance of
distinguishing between AI-generated code and AI assistance while writing
code. I should have changed the email subject, sorry.

> - grant on changes below "legally significant" limit (~15 lines of
> code)

Instinctually to me, there's so little to be gained from automating the
writing of ~15 lines of code that I'm not very worried about this.

> and grant to on adding tests

True.

> as well as writing aids, including spell check, translation,
> speech-to-text and reverse and so on. They also make a point that AI
> patch review is fine.

Spell-check and AI patch review are explicitly fine under my draft
ballot suggestion. Is there anything in the language that makes it seem
not fine?

I must admit I haven't given much thought to speech-to-text and
translation. Thanks for raising those points.


 Best,
 Gard

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