Posted to the mailing list on Friday were the latest proposed guidelines for tool-generated contributions to the Linux kernel. The coding tools in large part being focused on AI generated content.
Intel Linux engineer Dave Hansen posted the third draft of the proposed AI/tool generated content guidelines for the Linux kernel. The new guidelines rename “LLM” mentions to “coding assistant”, mentioning testing as part of the change if done by a tool, and some other minor revisions.
Would you rather want the LLM submissions be made in secret? I find it reasonable to mandate transparency.
I rather have no LLM submissions at all. Because what does it matter to the end user when some LLM code is committed, it’s not like we can pick and choose the commits that land into our image anyway.
You can’t prevent it, so it’s better to enforce transparency.