r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 19h ago

Development Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
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u/foolish_shrimp 19h ago

If AI is so good, why do they always want to hide that they’re using it.

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u/peakdecline 19h ago

What's the benefit of the tag? It seems to be it serves no purpose other than to be a lightning rod for ideological, rather than technical, discussions.

The merit of the code stands on its own. The responsibility of the code goes to the one who submitted it. I don't see any benefit to this tag.

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u/WaitForItTheMongols 17h ago

If the code is bad, it is useful to know whether it comes from novicehood or from AI - someone who submits bad code needs advice to fix it, and the nature of that advice is different depending on where the badness came from. If someone doesn't know what a semaphore is, they can learn, but if the code was AI to begin with and the person barely knows C at all, they're unlikely to be able to learn usefully so it is not worth wasting the effort trying to teach them.