r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 20h 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 20h ago

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

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u/zabby39103 17h ago

Reducing information reduces your ability to assess a situation. This is the equivalent of turning logging off.

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u/cornmonger_ 16h ago

a maintainer doesn't care about the "situation"

commits either meet acceptance criteria or they do not

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u/mort96 13h ago

And an important criteria is, "how well does the contributor understand the code they're contributing?"

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u/0riginal-Syn 13h ago

It is more about the code being submitted and how well the maintainer can understand it. In the end the code has to work and be maintainable. If there are questions, then we ask the contributor to explain. This is regardless if the submission was "AI submitted". I have seen some down right terrible code submissions by developers not using LLM. I am not saying I am for LLM at all. I am for good maintainable code.