Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Annotating patches containing AI-assisted code

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:36:54 +0000
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> escreveu:

> > Do you remember the first time you saw that, and what copyrights
> > were there? :-)  
> 
> Kernighan and Ritche "The C programming language" - First edition.

I saw it there too, but I probably saw it before that, on an "80 Micro"
Magazine edition which I don't recall anymore.

Btw, Wikipedia says it came from a BCPL code (*). So, K&R were not the
original authors.

(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program

Anyway, the point is: i we weren't trained with such pattern, 
a printf() with "Hey" or "Hi" would be a more likely answer.

That's said, in the early programming days, I used a lot more
this pattern (**):

	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

(**) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog

with has all 23 English characters. I have absolutely no glue when
I first saw it, but it was before I got "C Programming Language" 
book in hands, as I used it for a code I developed in Assembler
before learning C.

Yet, as I saw a lot more the "Hello world", I haven't using the
brown fox pattern for years.

Anyway, the point is: AI repeat patterns, but it will very likely
repeat the ones that are used on tons of different places, where
it is really hard to have any copyrights applied (as they become
common sense). Humans do the same.

Thanks,
Mauro