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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

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728 points freetonik | 2 comments | 21 Aug 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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Waterluvian ◴[21 Aug 25 19:07 UTC] No.44976790[source]▶
I’m not a big AI fan but I do see it as just another tool in your toolbox. I wouldn’t really care how someone got to the end result that is a PR.

But I also think that if a maintainer asks you to jump before submitting a PR, you politely ask, “how high?”

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armchairhacker ◴[21 Aug 25 21:01 UTC] No.44978050[source]▶
Agreed. As someone who uses AI (completion and Claude Code), I'll disclose whenever asked. But I disagree that it's "common courtesy" when not explicitly asked; since many people (including myself) don't mind and probably assume some AI, and it adds distraction (another useless small indicator; vaguely like dependabot, in that it steals my attention but ultimately I don't care).
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1. risyachka ◴[21 Aug 25 22:53 UTC] No.44979119[source]▶
It should be. You didn’t write generated code, why should I spend my life reading it?

If you want me to put in the effort- you have to put it in first.

Especially considering in 99% of cases even the one who generated it didn’t fully read/understand it.

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2. charcircuit ◴[22 Aug 25 00:38 UTC] No.44979876[source]▶
No one is forcing you to read it. Feel free to have your own AI judge if you should merge it or even just YOLO merge it. The end goal of people trying to get code merged is not to have you read it. It's to improve the software. Whether code improves the software or not is orthogonal to if the code was written by hand.