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  • A good heuristic is to understand the generated code you submit as if you typed every character yourself. A "I'm not sure, AI wrote it" type circumstance is a critical failure.
    by Tubelord
  • How much does open source rely on copyright for enforcement?

    Do court decisions that limit copyright protection of AI generated content cause problems for open source? Isn't there a requirement for a "Mental Conception" of the code output when using such a tool? Even copypasta requires you to somewhat know what you need to do, where "automated bug finding", does not seem to.

    by kurthr
  • Is anyone tracking how the different distros are coming down on the question?

    I was curious how Fedora is moving on this question, but I don't know where to look. And if one wants to hop distro either towards or away from AI, it would be nice to have a place to see the relative adoption.

    Linux distros are the perfect place to have a wide marketplace of options to suit every person, from completely anti-AI to completely YOLO vibe-code.

    by stillpointlab
  • Joey Hess is unimpressed. See https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/
    by edward
  • Good outcome, mostly.

    Option E beat literally every other option, so it is an unambiguous Condorcet winner.

    Bradley–Davidson analysis: https://gist.github.com/tulior/74479b28ddd1e191e5b2d89b8b68c...

    The Bradley-Davidson model gives Option 5 a 99.9993% posterior probability of ranking first.

    Options 2 and 6 are effectively tied for second.

    Option 5 also beat every alternative head-to-head. Its closest matchup was against Option 2, at 57.8% to 42.2%, so the result was decisive overall even though the closest pairwise contest was not a blowout.

    by tulio_ribeiro
  • Good to see the most common sense option winning. Some of the other proposals were so disconnected from reality I'm surprised they were even considered.
    by jhack
  • Related: I find this self-assessed AI level for contributions [1] to be extremely useful, both professionally and personally, to communicate the level of AI assistance so that the person on the receiving end can evaluate how much time & effort they want to spend understanding my code.

    [1]: https://www.visidata.org/blog/2026/ai/#self-assessed-ai-leve...

    by GZGavinZhao
  • New policy boils down to "AI or not, it's still your code and you're responsible for it". I can get on board with that.
    by chuckadams

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