>I've been writing code for almost half a century. Some of it has Sounds like we both got started coding around the same time. ;-) I've been experimenting with the AI coding tools for around 3 years now, and I have found a use for the tooling: In around 40 hours of my attention I have something that manual coding would have taken ~9 months of focused effort.
This contributor arrangement is an experiment, and we'll see how it goes. If it plays out that this project has suffered because of the lack contributions by senior coders such as yourself, that is a useful deliverable in my mind. I appreciate your feedback on the wording, I'll ponder that because my intention is to have this experiment be about AI generated software, so I may want to select different wording. Sean On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 11:38 AM Charles Curley < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2026 19:07:19 -0400 > The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'll be blunt: > > > > That clause not only leaves me disinclined to contribute to the > > project, but disinclined to use it, and inclined to recommend > > *against* other people using it. The explanations you give in that > > document do not help with this, and some of them actually strengthen > > it. > > I concur. > > I've been writing code for almost half a century. Some of it has > contributed to projects such as Jet Propulsion Lab's Cassini mission. > All of it without so much as a whiff of AI. I have yet to see any use > for AI. So this policy excludes me, quite possibly to the detriment of > the project. > > > This project already is what the policy describes. Every line of > > apt-cacher-ultra was written by an AI assistant working with a human > > director. Keeping the contribution model consistent with how the > > project was built feels reasonable. > > You could have a policy of contributions only from intelligent > entities. That would remove the artificial and unwarranted > discrimination against natural intelligence. > > "Keeping the contribution model consistent with how the project was > built" does not lead me to the conclusion that you have to accept > contributions only from AI. I find it a complete non-sequitur. > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > >
