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JonChesterfield ◴[] No.44382974[source]
Interesting. Harder line than the LLVM one found at https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#ai-generated-cont...

I'm very old man shouting at clouds about this stuff. I don't want to review code the author doesn't understand and I don't want to merge code neither of us understand.

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jitl ◴[] No.44383230[source]
When I use LLM for coding tasks, it's like "hey please translate this YAML to structs and extract any repeated patterns to re-used variables". It's possible to do this transform with deterministic tools, but AI will do a fine job in 30s and it's trivial to test the new output is identical to the prompt input.

My high-level work is absolutely impossible to delegate to AI, but AI really helps with tedious or low-stakes incidental tasks. The other day I asked Claude Code to wire up some graphs and outlier analysis for some database benchmark result CSVs. Something conceptually easy, but takes a fair bit of time to figure out libraries and get everything hooked up unless you're already an expert at csv processing.

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1. stefanha ◴[] No.44386134[source]
There is ongoing discussion about this topic in the QEMU AI policy: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250625150941-mutt-send-...