... > Debian should consider allocating some budget like several hundred USD > per month for the LLM API calls for all members and new-comers' usage.
I don't think Debian should as an organization pay for LLMs. On the contrary I would expect LLM providers to offer API keys for free to Debian Developers just like we have other perks listed at https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits. Considering how much the LLMs have utilized open source software when building and training them, it would actually make a lot of sense for those companies to step up and partner with Debian just like many web hosting companies have, as they all likewise have built their businesses on top of open source software. Currently, I don't see any AI companies at https://www.debian.org/partners/. If anyone has contacts at OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, 01 AI, Zhipu AI, Meta, Mistral, Nexus, Alibaba, AI21 Labs, Cohere etc, please tell them about the opportunity to sponsor Debian :) Also, in my view LLMs are still far from being able to do Debian development, they can't even write good git commit messages explaining *why* a particular change is made. They may in some cases, however, be useful assistants doing proof-reading and simple tasks. Debian contributors should be exploring sensible way to use LLMs in ways that fit their personal workflows, so that the human originated Merge Requests / patches get written faster and have a higher quality. But no thanks to LLM written stuff that wasn't closely co-authored and reviewed by a human. The risk of getting garbage is far too high.
