[__mharrison__]

Curious what simon thinks about using an LLM to work on Django...

I've used an LLM to create patches for multiple projects. I would not have created said work without LLMs. I also reviewed the work afterward and provided tests to verify it.

[cwillu]

> This isn’t about whether you use an LLM, it’s about whether you still understand what’s being contributed. What I see now is people who are using LLMs to generate the code and write the PR description and handle the feedback from the PR review. It’s to the extent where I can’t tell if there’d be a difference if the reviewer had just used the LLM themselves. And that is a big problem.

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> If you use an LLM to contribute to Django, it needs to be as a complementary tool, not as your vehicle.

[__mharrison__]

I guess I feel like the LLM was the vehicle and I was complementary to it...