Re: [Hamlib-developer] The use of LLM generated code in Hamlib (long)

[Greg T. <gd...@le...>]

"Mikael Nousiainen" <mik...@fa...> writes:

> Did we ever land to any decision regarding LLM usage in Hamlib?

This is an interesting opinion, and I think it has considerable merit.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/02/msg00060.html

> Hypothetically, how can project maintainers even know some code has
> been generated by an LLM - especially if there's a skilled developer
> reviewing and cleaning up the code before sharing it? I think this
> goes to the same category as using StackOverflow or "whatever Google
> results give you" as a starting point.

It's also similar to someone taking proprietary code and submitting it.
At some point we are believing people when they offer code with
Signed-Off-By: or implicitly under the inbound=outbound convention.
Whether that trust is misplaced is a general issue, and it's not
particularly about LLM code.

> I'd rephrase the question as: How can Hamlib "keep up" and do it in a
> responsible and ethical way?

My take is that saying "how do we keep up" is presupposing the answer to
the fundamental question.

73 de n1dam