I actually think point 2 (the Debian position) should not be dismissed so easily. The author states that the slop will just seep in inexorably without really arguing that position.
Maybe we should take time to figure out (and spell out for would-be contributors) what exactly responsible AI entails. Maybe it means that you can use AI to find bugs, but not actually write code, for example. Or instead it could mean only optional tools can have AI contributions. So for example if you have a programming language project, the language server could be written using AI because it’s an optional tool.
This seems like a facile and biased analysis.
I actually think point 2 (the Debian position) should not be dismissed so easily. The author states that the slop will just seep in inexorably without really arguing that position.
Maybe we should take time to figure out (and spell out for would-be contributors) what exactly responsible AI entails. Maybe it means that you can use AI to find bugs, but not actually write code, for example. Or instead it could mean only optional tools can have AI contributions. So for example if you have a programming language project, the language server could be written using AI because it’s an optional tool.
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