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/Tomi97_origin 6h ago

Nope. The contributer may never contribute again. They aren't signing up to maintain this code in the future, so their understanding doesn't really matter all that much.

What matters is if the code works and how well the maintainer can understand the code.