r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 2d ago

Development Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
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u/glowtape 2d ago

Meh, AI use should be attributed, so if things fuck up, and eventually keep fucking up, one can do root cause analysis.

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u/banana_slurp_jug 2d ago

No, it's essentially removing all possibility of "My agent messed up" as an excuse on a pull request. A developer will take complete and sole ownership of a pull request regardless of the origin of the code.

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u/underisk 2d ago

“My agent messed up” is already an invalid excuse and removing that tag isn’t going to make people stop using it.

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u/ITaggie 2d ago

A developer will take complete and sole ownership of a pull request regardless of the origin of the code.

That's already part of the agreement, LLM use or not

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u/glowtape 2d ago

If that keeps happening, ban their contributions. It'd probably happen way quicker, if the actual reason for the bad code is known, than when it's being obfuscated and the dev's going "Oh jolly gee, I have lot to learn" and getting second chances all the damn time.