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/UnrealHallucinator 19h ago

Its probably so developers are forced to take more ownership of their patches and not offer excuses

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u/Shap6 19h ago

As it should be

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u/BatemansChainsaw 16h ago

The reduction in transparency is the problem here.

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u/fankin 14h ago

what tramsparency? the developer takes ovnership, what more you want?

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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 12h ago

The developer to take ownership for using AI.

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 11h ago

I hate AI but it's too late. People are misusing it everywhere. The brutalist path forward is making them accountable for it under their own name instead of making excuses.

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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 8h ago

They can make excuses anyway and making the AI contribution a secret does literally nothing to change that.

I don't hate AI, my favorite/most-used app uses AI assistance. I respect that the developer is transparent about it. I trust the developer more because they are transparent.

Developers who keep AI usage a secret are untrustworthy. Developers who need to keep secrets are bad developers.

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u/OliM9696 12h ago

Shit code is still gonna be called out

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u/Legitimate-Store3771 2h ago

They are, that's the point. If I see Kevin made a change and I can trace a bug bag to him and document that, and I can see that in the last 2 months Kevin has made more bugs than anyone, Kevin is getting a talking to whether he's using AI or not.

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u/mort96 12h ago

Transparency