Andrew Radev5d ago

Add mastodon to the list of projects I use that is allowing LLM slop: https://github.com/mastodon/.github/pull/6

They "do not encourage" LLM-assissted contributions, but they don't ban them as long as you pinky swear you were super-duper careful.

"We are a small team supporting a production project; our time is best spent working with contributors who understand the project's technical requirements, and the safety of our users' data."

Then maybe you should *ban* the slop machines that generate large amounts of insecure and buggy code that you need to review much more carefully than anything else?

Add AI Policy, update other docs. by andypiper · Pull Request #6 · mastodon/.github

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Show threadAriaflame5d ago
@AndrewRadev Do you have a foolproof method of doing this? I'd love to know it.
Show threadAndrew Radev
@ariaflame A foolproof method of writing "LLM contributions are not allowed" in the AI policy of your project? I think it would be pretty foolproof to write those words in that document.
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Show threadAriaflame4d ago
@AndrewRadev And how would that magically stop them?
Show threadAndrew Radev4d ago

@ariaflame oh, you're looking for magic? I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were a child.

See, words don't do anything, actions do. But first, people need to decide what actions to take. When someone submits an 18,000-line "AI-assisted" PR, do you reject it on principle, or do you painstakingly review it in good faith? You're gonna have to decide what rules you follow and write them down in a little document, so that you can choose a specific course of action.