Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
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Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
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ItsMattyG · · focus · HN ↗
VCFundedGenYer · · focus · HN ↗
Reminder that AI is quite stupid.
novafunc · · focus · HN ↗
I'll trust the words of groups like curl (<a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/10/a-human-in-control/" rel="nofollow">https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/10/a-human-in-control/), Linux, and even the infamously anti-AI Gnome (<a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-sof...) that AI is finding real vulnerabilities and you're your project a disservice by ignoring them.
Edit: Though Greg did recently have a talk (that I skimmed) where he was a little reserved on LLMs: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q