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by mexicocitinluez 26 days ago
> Frankly, I'm sure if people wanted to sneak in an AI generated code by carefully reviewing it and making sure it's targeted and well tested

But this is exactly the point I'm making. If the code is carefully reviewed, targeted, and tested, then why make people have to lie in order to submit PRs?

Why not just say "Irresponsible use or agentic-based PR's will be auto-rejected"?

And that's not even mentioning that tools like Github Copilot can just act like fancy autocomplete. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of different ways to use these tools.

I guess I'm just really not sure how you can unequivocally forbid these insanely powerful tools when they are almost certainly going to be a large part of developer's workflows going forward?

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> Why not just say "Irresponsible use or agentic-based PR's will be auto-rejected"? ... tools like Github Copilot can just act like fancy autocomplete.

For what it's worth, this is basically what the Godot policy does say. It's not a blanket ban:

> No autonomous AI agent use or vibe coding

> No use of AI to generate substantial pieces of code ... AI assistance should be limited to menial things (like code completion, regex, or find and replace).