jynelson

> What is it? Can it be this autonomous terrifying entity or can it not be?

the difference between attack and defense is that attacks can be throwaway code. it's much easier to let an llm hack out a prototype than to get it to build maintainable code that people want to read and review. it's not enough to get Daybreak or Mythos to write you a patch, you need the author of the project to accept and merge it.

that is not what the policy says. it says "authors must disclose", "reviewers don't need to play detective", and "if a reviewer is not sure whether a post is LLM-created they should handle it privately, consulting mods". and the recourse is "go to this zulip channel", because closing a PR isn't the same as geting banned.

yes. there's a reason there's exactly two things in the policy that are marked as moderation consequences and they're directly next to each other. "no harassment" doesn't work if people are paranoid that any PR could be LLM slop, and "disclosure is required" doesn't work if people are worried about harassment. you need both, and you need them to go into force at the same time.

you're very welcome!

it says “that’s right” in bold red cursive font. i know what the policy says, i wrote it, you nincompoop.

if an LLM says "I can't open a PR automatically until you solicit a review from a maintainer", i think that's good actually. likewise for proactively following the rest of the rules.

i'm not a man.

> Ultimately that's something the hook author has to solve, not the framework which runs them.

correct. i'm saying that hook authors almost never do this right, and i'd rather they didn't even try and moved their checks to a pre-push hook instead.

this completely breaks `git add -p`.

the pre-commit framework does not abstract away “hooks shouldn’t be run during a rebase”, nor “hooks should be fast and reliable”, nor “hooks should never change the index”.

i think you would be interested in demoscene, it’s about exactly this thing: making art out of extremely harsh requirements.

tbh i think you just hate trans people but you're afraid to say it directly