On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 04:50:14PM +0000, Jean-Christophe wrote: > Dear Debian community, > > I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share my perspective on > the ongoing discussion about AI-assisted contributions, as I believe this is > a pivotal moment for Debian—not just technically, but philosophically. > > **LLMs are not our enemies.** They are tools [...]
Wow. This is going to make a megathread. I think we do have positions which are difficult to reconcile. Only with a lot if respect to each other we have a chance to survive this, So please... My position? I do free software as a conversation with fellow programmers. My source code is intended for humans to read it, to criticise it, to learn from it. And the other way around. As I am not interested in conversing with machines, I'm not interested in reading machine generated code posing as human written (no problem with compiler output, but that one is not cosplaying). If I may pose a wish, it'd be that "AI generated" code be clearly marked, for me to go in search of another project. Cheers -- t
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