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Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

116 points · 167 comments · bundie

  1. zzzeek · · focus · HN ↗
    banning AI from PRs because you're swamped with too many low quality PRs, definitely. We pretty much are doing this with SQLAlchemy. If I'm going to have a small fix or improvement coded by an LLM (which I do all the time), I want to prompt the LLM directly, rather than having someone trying to pad their resume forward my communications onto their LLM via PRs. What's the point of that?
    1. nicoburns · · focus · HN ↗
      Reasonable, although I've taken a different approach. Either closing such PRs, or treating them as very detailed issues and having my own LLM build the actual fix.

      My repos probably don't see as much traffic as SQLAlchemy though.

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