←back to thread

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

(github.com)
728 points freetonik | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
uberduper ◴[21 Aug 25 20:36 UTC] No.44977753[source]▶
> Or a more detailed disclosure:

> I consulted ChatGPT to understand the codebase but the solution was fully authored manually by myself.

What's the reasoning for needing to disclose this?

replies(2): >>44977888 #>>44977899 #
jedahan ◴[21 Aug 25 20:48 UTC] No.44977888[source]▶
Helps the maintainer focus their efforts during review. If you wrote that exact sentence, a maintainer would keep "understanding of the codebase" as a place for potential sources of incorrect assumptions higher in mind than otherwise.
replies(1): >>44977923 #
1. uberduper ◴[21 Aug 25 20:51 UTC] No.44977923[source]▶
In my experience, if there's one thing the AI assistants do really well, it's understanding existing code and summarizing it or pinpointing specific things I'm looking for.