Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Other LLM-related topics - tags, newcomers, etc

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 11:28:25AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 09:09:27AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> > - There are many first-time contributors coming in with LLM-generated
> >  patches.  At times, I could swear that every one of them is focused on

> >  Our maintainers are not scaling to handle this new flood, and I fear we
> >  are going to see some unfortunate things merged.  One LLM-driven newco=
mer
> >  recently nearly succeeded in establishing himself as the maintainer of
> >  lib/.  How do we hold the line against this stuff while remaining open=
 to
> >  new developers?

> Shouldn't it be a merits question rather than a tools question?

> If the commits are correct, does it matter if they were written with an L=
LM? we
> can insist more on supplying tests and demonstrating correctness, somethi=
ng we
> seem to be doing quite rarely right now.

The issue (which a number of projects are facing) is as much one of
volume as anything else, the code generation machines are enabling the
generation and submision of volumes of code where things were previously=20
constrained by human factors.  It can turn into a bit of a DoS.  I don't
have any particularly bright ideas here but it's definitely a thing.

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