On Thu Feb 19, 2026 at 10:14 AM CET, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
I don't believe that the specific technology matters all that much.
I believe the technology matters a lot. In fact, it seems to me that people complaining about the use of "AI" do not do so for the fact that being assisted by some kind of tool is bad (which is a different topic), but for the consequences that the creation of the technology itself has on free software, society, and the environment.
For this reason, the proposal should have clear boundaries and avoid broad terms like AI. I would even feel uncomfortable at banning LLMs at all, as one of the many projects I'm working on involves creating a free language model which can be integrated into Debian's regular build process, with training data etc. And I feel that such tool would be well accepted by many of the people who feel strongly about LLMs here.
I cannot say I have a clear solution to this issue, and I still don't know where to draw the line. What I can confidently say, though, is that a project like Claude's C Compiler should not have a place in Debian.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler Bye!
