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/zackel_flac 11h ago

This is the whole point: don't let AI do all the work because it can't be trusted. AI did X should never be am excuse for shipping it.

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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 11h ago

If AI can't be trusted, why keep QI involvement a secret?

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u/zackel_flac 11h ago

If? There is no if my friend, have you ever shipped code from AI directly to prod?

Human can't be trusted too, this is why we set responsibility onto people so that somebody has to act when something goes south. Your AI won't care if a plane crashes they have nothing to lose. Losing our life as human being is important on the other hand.

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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 11h ago

So how does making AI involvement a secret make the human more accountable?

Use your brain, don't take this in the same circle again. "Because they can't blame the AI" wrong, they can still blame the AI. Give me an actual reason to keep AI involvement a secret.

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u/zackel_flac 11h ago

This is not about hiding. Do you tell the world what text editor you are using when shipping code? What git version? What static analyzer you ran and what linter you used to detect bugs for you? I have never seen people signing with valgrind nor ASAN, yet they probably fixed more stuff than LLMs to this day.

AI is just another tool on the engineers belt, this is why dropping it makes sense. It's just a tool, not a responsibility taker. Singing is about responsibility, it's not about telling you did X with Y.

Even today what prevents you from not co-signing and reporting AI usage? Nothing. You can copy paste what AI tells you, or rewrite it soemhow and claim it to be yours.

I get your point now, but controlling AI usage seems useless nowadays. We need people to treat it like a tool though, nothing more

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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 7h ago

Do you tell the world what text editor you are using when shipping code?

I have zero qualms telling people I use Kate. 

Why is it not equivalently easy to tell people you use AI?

Why can I do it so easily and you can't? What's wrong with you?

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u/zackel_flac 4h ago

My main concern? Micromanagement. Let me do my work the way I want to do it, if it works, if it's secure, it's delivered on time, and I am here to maintain why should you care of how it was done?

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u/AffectionatePlastic0 10h ago

The whole point is that the one who sent the PR is responsible for it's content. Not Claude/Gemini/Qwen/GLM.

How they have created this patch is out of scope.

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u/zackel_flac 8h ago

Then the "Assisted-By" tag can be removed, it serves no purpose, or else let's be pedentic, let's add all the tooling used: valgrind, gcc, libasan and so on.