The comments are worth it... the full spectrum of personalities and the hottest of takes. 10/10, would recommend to a bored friend.

This is a pretty good middle ground, I think. You can't prevent LLM usage and there's significant downsides to doing so universally, so restricting contributions to things that a human needs to demonstrably understand circumvents a lot of problems.

15 lines of code is a great middle ground. Those changes involve a lot of tests though

caveat about test cases is a good add

For until the end of the article I was thinking GCC as in Gulf Cooperation Council. No idea why, but I was surprised this being about the gcc compiler and AI rules.

The policy source is worth reading: https://forge.sourceware.org/redi/gcc-wwwdocs/commit/4d0793a...

> We welcome all contributors to the community even if they have not yet followed our policies; we should guide such contributors on how to do so.

Kudos to the GNU project for their attitude.

>Why is anyone not surprised that some folks are not enthusiastically building their own gallows?

Their way of putting it is funny. I like this person's opinion, but I disagree with it. It's just their own framework, but I think it could also serve as a foundation for building other things.

Speaking of PRs, honestly, I've done the same thing before—it was just a one-line fix, but I asked the LLM to add 30 lines of tests just to look more professional

That comment section is filled with HN types

It’s definitely interesting watching the OSS and commercial world swing in seemingly opposite directions on this. It would be nice to see some companies sharing more balanced successful practices they’ve implemented with AI

The 3 big ones, Linux, GCC and Git require a human to vouch/explain the work in question.

Once the 3 big ones start using LLM to review/accept the work for speed reliability sake, who knows what is going to happen.

For people who feel it's too restrictive, I wonder if a good alternative is to work on improving clang instead?

Do we have any idea what "legally significant" or "legally insignificant" means here?