AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

Re:AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions by uberduper on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:36PM (#44977753)

> Or a more detailed disclosure:

> I consulted ChatGPT to understand the codebase but the solution was fully authored manually by myself.

What's the reasoning for needing to disclose this?

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Re:AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions by jedahan on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:48PM (#44977888)

Helps the maintainer focus their efforts during review. If you wrote that exact sentence, a maintainer would keep "understanding of the codebase" as a place for potential sources of incorrect assumptions higher in mind than otherwise.

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Re:AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions by uberduper on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:51PM (#44977923)

In my experience, if there's one thing the AI assistants do really well, it's understanding existing code and summarizing it or pinpointing specific things I'm looking for.

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Re:AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions by uberduper on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:49PM (#44977899)

I'm not really a developer but I routinely need to go dig through codebases looking for answers and AI assistants have made this so much faster. This has been a boon for me.

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