| ▲ | jnwatson 2 hours ago | |
Kind of arbitrary since it doesn't impact their upstreams. The very first thing I used GenAI for was fixing build and CI pipeline issues, exactly the drudgery no one cares about. Today, LLMs are excellent at the yeoman's work of maintaining patches across multiple versions and upstream, which is what I imagine a lot of Debian devs do. Why you wouldn't want to hand that off to a computer program is beyond me. | ||
| ▲ | tomxor 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Why you wouldn't want to hand that off to a computer program is beyond me. Trust, stability, security. The reasons many people run Debian. Although I think the main incompatibility in philosophy here is in "hand that off", e.g. direct agentic usage eroding opportunity for human judgement, which seems unlikely to be adopted anyway. The realistic proposals are essentially AI use with various guard rails and rules to preserve that human judgement (my interpretation). Actual Proposals (scroll down): https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 | ||
| ▲ | silver_silver 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
There are ethical and environmental concerns arising simply from use and contribution to the industry which many people take seriously | ||