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Re:Gentoo AI Policy by jlebar on Monday September 15, 2025 @12:03AM (#45245988)
As a former LLVM developer and reviewer, I want to say:

1. Good for you.

2. Ignore the haters in the comments.

> my latest PR is my second-ever to LLVM and is an entire linter check.

That is so awesome.

> The code is of terrible quality and I am at 100+ comments on my latest PR.

The LLVM reviewers are big kids. They know how to ignore a PR if they don't want to review it. Don't feel bad about wasting people's time. They'll let you know.

You might be surprised how many PRs even pre-LLMs had 100+ comments. There's a lot to learn. You clearly want to learn, so you'll get there and will soon be offering a net-positive contribution to this community (or the next one you join), if you aren't already.

Best of luck on your journey.

Re:Gentoo AI Policy by jjmarr on Monday September 15, 2025 @12:28AM (#45246122)
Thanks. I graduated 3 months ago and this has been a huge help.
Re:Gentoo AI Policy by thesz on Monday September 15, 2025 @02:38AM (#45246773)

  > You might be surprised how many PRs even pre-LLMs had 100+ comments
What about percentages?
Re:Gentoo AI Policy by close04 on Monday September 15, 2025 @03:32AM (#45247085)
> They know how to ignore a PR if they don't want to review it

How well does that scale as the number of such contributions increases and the triage process itself becomes a sizable effort?

LLMs can inadvertently create a sort of DDoS even with the best intentions, and mitigating it costs something.

Re:Gentoo AI Policy by sampullman on Monday September 15, 2025 @04:10AM (#45247297)
Wait and see, then change the policy based on what actually happens.

I sort of doubt that all of a sudden there's going to be tons of people wanting to make complex AI contributions to LLVM, but if there are just ban them at that point.

Re:Gentoo AI Policy by yeasku on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:30AM (#45247777)
It has happend to Curl.
Re:Gentoo AI Policy by danillonunes on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:20PM (#45268210)
Curl's case was related with its bug bounty, so when involving money the incentives are different.