On Tue, 2026-02-24 at 09:14 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 01:54:38AM +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > > Some anti-AI voices are concerned that use of AI will decrease the > ability to gian seasoned contributors, with the implied concern that > this is self-defeating because it restricts the ability to gain new > members in the future. And you are now saying we should gate keep > contributors that might be using AI as being unworthy of contributing > to Debian? I'd say that is even more self-defeating.
This is like making supercars manually vs automated car manufacturing. One side leans towards purism and one side leans towards the majority. They are not trying to eliminate each other -- they co-exist with each other in this exact world. Whenever one of them try to eliminate each other, nobody wins. The future coding work destines to be taken over more and more by AI. Whenever one side try to eliminate or isolate each other, nobody wins. Sometimes I see a sense of insecurity if one binds the carefully written code to the meaning of themself -- indeed, lots of people worked very hard for very long time to cultivate their own skills -- when AI replaced "Me who can write delicate code", "Me" is seemingly replaced. But that is not necessarily happening once the bind is released. Human being is not defined by what they create. I mentioned nothing on the legal side -- it is a mess where I'm unable to discuss.
