Re: Stop false review statements

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> Sat, 16 May 2026 05:11:28 -0700
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.sashiko,dev.linux.lists.sashiko-reviews,org.kernel.vger.linux-devicetree,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.workflows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> What the hell is that:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> 
> As a bot you CANNOT MAKE a Reviewer's statement of oversight. You are
> not a damn human do be able to make such statement. You are a bot, a tool.
> 

Where exactly do the rules say that ? I seem to miss that.

There is a policy document about _contributions_ made by AI, but I don't
see the one that says that AI agents must not provide Reviewed-by: tags.

> Stop faking tags.
> 
> And really, considering how many false positives Sashiko produces, how
> poor review comments it gives, how many misleading comments, it's
> unacceptable to me to consider that a review.
> 
> Amount of useless noise Sashiko produces already changed my mind how
> useful that tool is.

We seem to have completely different experiences. Yes, it does produce
false positives, just like humans do. However, I have seen it find many
real bugs, including many in patches which already had Reviewed-by: tags
from (presumably) human reviewers.

Again, it appears that our experience is completely different than mine,
but after several weeks of getting code reviews from sashiko I do have to
say that I trust its review feedback significantly more than human reviews.
Sure, it does not guarantee that a patch is indeed bug free. A human review
doesn't guarantee it either.

> 
> I will be NAKing every damn tag produced by such tools.

I'd like to see an official policy. Until then I'll ignore your NAK in my
scope of responsibility.

Thanks,
Guenter