Re: Stop false review statements

Hi Ted,

On Mon, 18 May 2026 at 14:26, Theodore Tso <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 11:04:29AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > > Sashiko is supporting various LLMs, including open models - it’s just a practical
> > > choice: to my knowledge the quality of open models is not on par with frontier closed
> > > models and it would require a non-trivial amount of hardware and infrastructure to run
> > > an open model at the required scale.
> >
> > In the context of the "Reviewed-by: Sashiko" discussion, this actually
> > makes it really hard to assess the quality of those reviews.
>
> Agreed.  There's a reason why the coding-assistants.rst specifies the
> model which is used:
>
>   Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
>
> The problem is that (as Jon has pointed out) coding-assistants.rst was
> intended for use when the tool was beging used to help create the code
> --- that is, "Coding Assistants".  What we're doing here is more of a
> reviewer assistance.  Something like:
>
>   Scanned-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
>
> Would be more interesting, but it doesn't actually tell us anything
> about what the results were of the scan.

Indeed.

Scanned-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

Doesn't say much more than the RFC2822 "Receved:"-header,
and thus not meant to be saved for posterity in git history ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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