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wrote: > > > > Thinking LLMs are 'just another tool' is to say effectively that the kernel > > is immune from this. Which seems to me a silly position. > > No. Your position is the silly one. > > There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid. > > Why? Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches > as such. That's such an obvious truism that I don't understand why > anybody even brings up AI slop. The point is: a. For the tech press to not gleefully report that the kernel just accepts AI patches now since hey it's just another tool. b. To be able to refer back to the document when rejecting series. As to point a., as I said before in other threads, I remain concerned that the second the tech press say 'the kernel accepts AI patches now' we'll see an influx. It's sad we have to think about that, but it's a fact of life. > > So stop this idiocy. > > The documentation is for good actors, and pretending anything else is > pointless posturing. I mean with respect, if the document is saying in effect 'hey everything's the same relax', what's the point of the document again? > > As I said in private elsewhere, I do *not* want any kernel development > documentation to be some AI statement. We have enough people on both > sides of the "sky is falling" and "it's going to revolutionize > software engineering", I don't want some kernel development docs to > take either stance. To be clear I am actually quite optimistic about AI tooling in some areas, most notably review (Chris Mason is doing some great work on this for instance! :) My suggestions are _not_ taking either position. They are just there to address points a and b above, while otherwise retaining the same exact position as the document currently does. (I actually feel the rest of the document is good, as I said in v1 review, Dave + of course the other reviewers did a good job.) > > It's why I strongly want this to be that "just a tool" statement. > > And the AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation, > and anybody who thinks it is either just naive, or wants to "make a > statement". I mean, not sure I said we'd be solving AI slop here :) if we could solve it with a document that'd be great, but I'm not that naive/hopeful obviously. Dave asked me to send an incremental patch to the documentation to be entirely clear as to what change I'm suggesting, I am happy to do that FWIW. Perhaps that'll make my suggestion a little clearer. > > Neither of which is a good reason for documentation. > > Linus Thanks, Lorenzo