I would be shocked if all of the projects on your list genuinely adhere to requirements as stringent as "no contributor has ever googled an issue and accepted a working AI suggested solution". How would they even enforce that?
vithigar
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They don't need to have been used routinely, just knowledge of their use had to be common. In the same way that "shooting yourself in the foot" makes sense even to people who have never used a gun. It was enough to know what "hoist" and "petard" meant to piece together the intent of the phrase. Then once the phrase itself became common the specific knowledge was no longer necessary.
I maintain an open source project with a modest following and got my first ever LLM-generated PR this last weekend.
The code change itself was small and largely fine, if somewhat over-commented in that way that LLM code often is. It was a small improvement for scaling one particular aspect of the UI at higher display scales.
The PR description was entirely LLM generated as well. It's quite possible that I was the first human to actually read it, including the "author".
My response:
First of all, there is a major UI refactor in-progress, so no UI related changes will be accepted at this time.
Secondly, you could at least try to make this not obviously AI generated.
Closed.
They went off like I had just personally insulted their family. Posted a huge rant about how AI was the future, I was going to be left behind, and that my project was unusable on 2K and 4K displays due to the issue this PR was addressing.
I posted a follow-up saying that I actually didn't mind the idea of accepting code that had be written with LLM assistance, mostly because I don't want to wade into the mire that is trying to weigh where every small change came from, but I expect human written PR descriptions. I'm not interested in interacting with meat proxies, if I wanted to ask AI to fix all the bugs I was aware of I could just do that myself.
I blocked them at that point, so can't tell you what they may have said in response.
Aside: Ignoring the unrelated mess that is what "2K" actually means, I've been using 1440p displays for a decade and a half, and another regular contributor runs at 4K, so I have no idea what this person's bar for "unusable" is.
I actually closed my eyes and took a moment to prepare myself after reading the first sentence because I knew I was about to read the most brain-dead take imaginable.
The Epic store shopping cart died for this.
The Steam update has been available in the beta client for over a month. This wasn't a response, they had already done it.
...do your internal organs get itchy?
Holy cow. Despite the underlying subject not being a laughing matter I found this image pretty funny and it gave me a chuckle, then I popped into the comments to basically find a warzone.
Anyone who feels attacked by this and gets defensive seriously needs to take a step back and examine why.
Fun fact: Nothing that ICE enforces carries a death penalty, nor are any violent offenses part of their mandate. So why do they need guns at all?
Obviously I'm asking this sardonically, since we know the real answer. Just felt like pointing it out.
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Yes. Or at least I hope so. Presumably there are no criminal judges here as they seem to be the most inclined to the opposing viewpoint.
It is insane to me that this gets hauled out as a reason for light sentencing over and over again. Having an impact on a person's life is literally the point, and here they are openly sidestepping it.