April 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM, "Sam James" <[email protected] 
mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Sam%20James%22%20%3Csam%40gentoo.org%3E > wrote:



> 
> "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > 
> > [email protected] mailto:[email protected]  writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > > April 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM, "Maximus Minter" <[email protected] 
> > > mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Maximus%20Minter%22%20%3Cfiddlebert2020%40gmail.com%3E
> > >  > wrote:
> > > 
> >  I used deepseek-V3.2 to debug some files in the GNU Mach, and I did
> >  …
> > 
> > > 
> > > Maybe this is a dumb question, but did you vibe code this? 
> > > 
> > >  Did you use AI to code this patch?
> > > 
> >  “I used deepseek” says that.
> > 
> >  But the latter
> > 
> >  some manual intervention like testing the patches and reviewing
> >  them. I also tested them in qemu and performed some stress tests,
> > 
> >  (specifically: "reviewing them")
> > 
> >  is not consistent with just throwing in a new file with complex without
> >  any explanation. Same for moving some locking around.
> > 
> >  At the current state of this patch, I consider it as not reviewable.
> > 
> Yes, I think Samuel was rather generous in finding anything to fish out
> of it that was legitimate.

I'm assuming that the Hurd's current policy is not to accept AI contributed 
code.

Opperating under that assumption, I'll add a patch to the wiki documented
that we are ok with AI to debug the Hurd codebase, but NOT to write code.

Thanks,

Joshua

> > 
> > Best wishes,
> >  Arne
> >
>

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