On 10/12/26 5:49 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
Ah, yeah, if the advice isn't overly prescriptive and doesn't include
actual code then I agree it sounds like that would be within bounds.
In other words, using an AI tool can fill the same kind of role as
asking a colleague for advice or talking on irc.
Yup, that's the model I had in mind.
Right. Or let's take Aldy's case from Cauldron (over-simplifying)
Ask the LLM to find 5 ways to solve X, implement and benchmark those
approaches. Then the developer steps in to review the data and select a
general approach. Developer goes off and does their own
implementation. So the LLM is writing code as a tool to explore what
paths forward might look like. The developer doesn't use any of that
code -- but the question is are they tainted by the LLM code if they
looked at it during the process?
Jeff
