[watusername]

Looking at the whole interaction as well as the AI patch (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/125602#issuecommen...) the author submitted, I have to disagree. It removes the flag setting altogether and adds useless code. It demonstrates that the author really has no understanding of the code, which may be okay for your weekend SaaS but definitely not for build system code in critical compiler infrastructures. To put it bluntly: This _is_ AI slop.

There's no denying that AI is helpful, _when_ the human has some baseline knowledge to check the output and steer the model in the correct direction. In this case, it's just wasting the maintainers' time.

I've seen many instances of this happening in the support channels for Nix/NixOS, which has been around long enough for the models to give plausible responses, yet too niche for them to emit usable output without sufficient prompting:

"No, this won't work because [...]" "What about [another AI response that is incorrect]?" (multiple back-and-forths, everyone is tired)

[axman6]

The Mesa project example(https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/13022) is even more deranged - I came to this story from someone on Mastodon recommending people proactively ban this person from their project. I'm not personally in favour of doing that, but this is the closest I've been to thinking that's a reasonable thing to do to prevent actively wasting time on nonsense busywork.