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by rurban 23 days ago
No AI comments is silly. Of course you need to be able to explain and summarize it yourself, but the AI does it so much better.
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unsignedint 22 days ago
Of course, they can't realistically police every use of AI any more than they can police someone using Grammarly or similar tools. I think the core of the argument is really about drawing a hard line against low-quality "write a response for me" type usage.

In reality, people are going to keep doing that no matter what. But at the same time, it's still probably a worthwhile line to draw when it comes to discouraging more irresponsible or disengaged uses of AI.

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SaucyWrong 22 days ago
> Of course you need to be able to explain and summarize it yourself

How can I hold you to that unless I make you do that in your own words?

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rurban 22 days ago
In my own words it would be 10 times shorter, with much less educational value.
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technion 22 days ago
Ten times shorter just means "readable without losing an excess of time on ramble" and I feel like someone's comeback to this will be "you should ask an AI to summarise".
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rurban 22 days ago
It means, familiar to anyone close to the code, but not to any exec.

The AI makes it clear even for execs, juniors or flybyes. Which you usually don't want to have around near that code.

But in the end Stallman was right. it pays off to follow GNU changelog conventions, and be very verbose for outstanders. The AI can do that for you.

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