On 9/9/25 11:22 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 12:32:14PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> Add a new 'b4 dig' subcommand that uses AI agents to discover related >> emails for a given message ID. This helps developers find all relevant >> context around patches including previous versions, bug reports, reviews, >> and related discussions. > > That really sounds like "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks > like a nail". The community has been working for multiple years to > improve discovery of relationships between patches and commits, with > great tools such are lore, lei and b4, and usage of commit IDs, patch > IDs and message IDs to link everything together. Those provide exact > results in a deterministic way, and consume a fraction of power of what > this patch would do. It would be very sad if this would be the direction > we decide to take.
Fully agree, this kind of lazy "oh just waste billions of cycles and punt to some AI" bs is just kind of giving up on proper infrastructure to support maintainers and developers. -- Jens Axboe
