Consensus is broken, I am reverting it and start a discussion.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 4:24 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorr. I merged it because I **thought** it was non-controversial (I have
> not seen any complaints about it before) - and yeah - I wrote that if there
> will be any complaints I will revert it.
>
> I am going to do now, and start a discussion as apparently it is
> apparently controversial.  I do not agree with your arguments - I think
> it's exact opposite of what you imply - and it's "centaur and not reverse
> centaur [1] (or meat proxy)" - where human is in control.
>
> BTW. I highly recommend the book "Reverse - author of the
> "Entshittification" term. The book "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life
> After AI" is a fantastic book, I literally swallowed it and it opened my
> eyes to many things.
>
> [1]
> https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11-vulgar-thatcherism-there-is-an-alternative-f1428b42a8fd
>
>
>
> J
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 3:33 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> No.
>>
>> -1 as it stands.
>>
>> The PR description should already be for humans only. The PR description
>> is the way the person opening the PR engages with the community, and being
>> a meat proxy shows they don’t care about the consumers of it. Your proposal
>> is reversing the priority to my mind
>>
>> I.e. I think we should remove the `Human Summary ` and `AI Summary`
>> headers, and use `<details><summary>AI Summary</summary>` instead of “click
>> here”.
>>
>> Additionally: why did you merge this PR just 30mins after sending this
>> email when the date below says “in 4 days”?
>>
>> -ash
>>
>>
>> > On 24 Sep 2026, at 13:27, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > Following Shahar's idea - and a number of PRs he has already opened this
>> > way - I would like to call for lazy consensus on making it a rule for
>> > agent-drafted PR descriptions:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/73660
>> >
>> > The idea is simple:
>> >
>> > * A PR description drafted by an AI agent starts with a short "Human
>> >  Summary" - a few sentences typed by the human author, in their own
>> >  words: why the change is needed, key decisions, caveats.
>> > * The agent-written description is still there, but below it, in an
>> >  "AI Summary" section that is folded by default.
>> > * Agents are instructed to ask the user for the Human Summary and paste
>> >  it verbatim - they must never write, suggest or paraphrase it
>> >  themselves.
>> >
>> > This should make it much easier (not with 100% certainty, but quite
>> > reliably) to tell PRs where a human understood and owns the change
>> > apart from fully AI-generated ones. It also gives reviewers a quick,
>> > human-level "why" before they dive into the details.
>> >
>> > The PR only changes the guidance our agents follow (AGENTS.md and the
>> > PR drafting/publishing skills) plus one bullet in the Gen-AI section of
>> > contributing-docs. The regular PR template is unchanged - PRs created by
>> > humans without agents are not affected. The PR itself is "dog-fed" - it
>> > uses the new format.
>> >
>> > As this is straightforward and uncontroversial, I plan to merge the PR
>> > before the lazy consensus ends. If there are objections, we can simply
>> > revert it.
>> >
>> > The lazy consensus will end on Monday, 28 September 2026, 15:00 CEST,
>> > unless there are objections.
>> >
>> > J.
>> >
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