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Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

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493 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 23:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.482s | source
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teruakohatu ◴[25 Jun 25 23:36 UTC] No.44382812[source]▶
So essentially it’s “let us cover ourselves by saying it’s not allowed” and in practice that means not allowing code that a human thinks is AI generated code.

Universities have this issue too, despite many offering students and staff Grammarly (Gen AI) while also trying to ban Gen AI.

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1. _fat_santa ◴[25 Jun 25 23:40 UTC] No.44382831[source]▶
Well I guess the key difference is code is deterministic, that is whether an paper accomplishes it's goals is somewhat subjective but with code its an absolute certainty.

I'm sure that if a contributor working on a feature used cursor to initially generate the code but then goes over it to ensure it's working as expected that would be allowed, this is more for those folks that just want to jam in a quick vibe-coded PR so they can add "contributed to the QEMU project" on their resumes.

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2. hananova ◴[25 Jun 25 23:51 UTC] No.44382894[source]▶
You'd be wrong, the linked commit clearly says that anything written by, or derived from, AI code generation is not allowed.