all 16 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 39 points 4 months ago (1 child)

AI agents MUST NOT add Signed-off-by tags. Only humans can legally certify the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). The human submitter is responsible for:

  • Reviewing all AI-generated code
  • Ensuring compliance with licensing requirements
  • Adding their own Signed-off-by tag to certify the DCO
  • Taking full responsibility for the contribution

That's fair. Nobody has to know you wrote it with a not, that's impossible to detect, but you have to own it and be ready for the discussions that follow.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    @onlinepersona @Innerworld And what do you think, will the AI agent be ready to the following discussion?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well, no. But then it gets rejected, and further PRs that also fail the check will likely get you banned from contributing.

    The human is responsible.
    If the code or PR fails, the human has to own that.
    If the human fails to own that, the human gets banned

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Rule-wise, this seems fair.

    Regardless, if AI usage continues to increase in this manner, I'll likely be driving NetBSD, AROS, and FreeDOS by the end of the decade.

    Maybe even a little TempleOS or ZealOS, for flavour.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's just regarding labeling. It's unenforcable to have a project "clean" of AI.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ok I see the intent of BDFL is different, but the linked document only mentions labeling - I can only assume the low quality etc. issues are handled as a judgement call, and in that way I consider the "No AI whatsoever" rule unenforceable.

    If I use an LLM to generate code under my suprvision, review, quality check and test to be up to standard, how would it be detected I used AI if I don't label it so? They'll look for em-dashes in comments?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Given that nobody is able to guarantee that code used for training was used according to it’s license, this means no hallucinated code in Linux. Nice.

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    It will comply but will not compile

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It really has come a long way in a relatively very short time in terms of quality and, well, shitting under the rug

  • source