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Comment by orf

4 days ago

Sure, but back in reality no you’re not? No more than any other contributor?

If I want to use an auto-complete then I can, and I will? Restricting that is as regressive as a project trying to specify that I write code from a specific country or… standing on my head.

Sure, if they want me to add a “I’m writing this standing on my head” message in the PR then I will… but I’m not.

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jacquesm  4 days ago

No, you can't. See, that's where you are just wrong: when you don't respect the boundaries an open source project sets that you want to contribute to then you are a net negative.

Restricting this is their right, and it is not for you to attempt to overrule that right. Besides the fact that you do not oversee the consequences it also makes you an asshole.

They're not asking for you to write standing on your head, they are asking for you to author your contributions yourself.

  • orf  4 days ago

    They are asking me to author my contributions in a way that they approve of. The essence of the request is the same as asking someone to author them whilst standing on their head.

    Except they don’t, won’t and can’t control that: the very request is insulting.

    I’ll make a change any way I choose, upright, sideways, using AI. My choice. Not theirs.

    Their choice is to accept it or reject it based purely on the change itself, because that’s all there is.

    • eschaton  3 days ago

      If you’re going to lie and say there was no LLM involved, what else are you going to lie about? Copying code from another codebase with incompatible license terms, perhaps?

      I would say people should be wary of any contributions whatsoever from a filthy fucking liar.

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  • pmarreck  1 day ago

    > author your contributions yourself

    This is such an easily refuted assertion. Tell me, if something is wrong with the submitted code, who or what is responsible? If it's not "the LLM", then your opinion makes zero sense. The responsible party is always a human; therefore the responsible party rightfully deserves the credit whether it succeeds or fails.

  • hijnksforall956  4 days ago

    I am authoring my contributions, using Clause Code as a tool. It doesn't make me an asshole.

    If the maintainers don't want to accept it, fine. Someone will eventually fork and advance and we move on. The Uncles can continue to play in their no AI playground, and show each other how nice their code is.

    The world is moving on from the "AI is bad" crowd.

    • justin66  4 days ago

      Forking the code can be perfectly reasonable, with this or any other disagreement about policy. The main point of contention in this thread is whether you ought to lie about having used an LLM. I agree with Jacques: doing something like that would make you an asshole.