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

116 points · 167 comments · bundie

  1. sippingabonedry · · focus · HN ↗
    Completely performative.

    You build your OS atop thousands of open source packages, many of which contain AI generated code. Are you going to audit them one by one and remove offending packages? What about the ones you won't remove because the OS would be irreparably broken?

    1. _heimdall · · focus · HN ↗
      It also doesn't answer the question of how they might even recognize LLM generated code in contributions to PopOS directly.

      I have yet to understand how maintainers can't distinguish beyond (1) PRs that literally include Claude co-author notes or (2) low quality code contribution regardless of the creator.

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