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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

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728 points freetonik | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.389s | source
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paulddraper ◴[21 Aug 25 19:39 UTC] No.44977107[source]▶
Aren't a large majority of programmers using Copilot/Cursor/AI autocompletion?

This seems very noisy/unhelpful.

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1. alfalfasprout ◴[21 Aug 25 20:20 UTC] No.44977562[source]▶
> If you are using any kind of AI assistance while contributing to Ghostty, *this must be disclosed in the pull request*, along with the extent to which AI assistance was used (e.g. docs only vs. code generation). If PR responses are being generated by an AI, disclose that as well.

The extent here is very important. There's a massive difference between vibe-coding a PR, using LLMs selectively to generate code in files in-editor, and edit prediction like copilot.

It says actually later that tab-completion needn't be disclosed.