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Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI" (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's true. Nonetheless the maintainers seem to see AI as a valid way to reduce their workload.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As someone who has done package management for a distro at one point in my life... after the initial push, it is so incredibly boring.

I think AI should do all of it. I'm entirely certain that things would be better, not worse, if we did. 99% of problems related to that stuff is because it's so fucking boring that humans just simply cannot pay the kind of attention it requires to be safe.

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Current AI is still like that incredibly knowledgeable senior dev with a drug problem. Everything done by AI still needs to be checked by a human in case the AI just hallucinated the wildest shit even though it did the same thing just right ten times before.
Right now, AI is a great tool. It will probably become reliable enough to replace human maintainers. But no one knows when that happens.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Current AI is still like that incredibly knowledgeable senior dev with a drug problem.

So you mean exactly like most package maintainers prior to AI?