> Op 03-07-2026 04:57 CEST schreef Theodore Tso <[email protected]>: > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 12:46:19PM -0500, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > It would make sense IMHO to address the ignorance in the most expedient > > manner, > > namely by telling the *LLM itself* to add this tag when it generates the > > commit > > message and/or reviews the code. > > > > This could be achieved by adding a statement in "AGENTS.md" in the root of > > the > > source tree to this effect, or telling the agent to reference and follow > > rules > > in Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst regarding the Assisted-by: > > tag. > > This presupposes a particular workflow where the developer allows the > LLM to generate git commits. I don't do that. I'll ask the LLM to > modify the code, but then I'll generally fix it up --- very often by > hand because I can edit the sources than entering a prompt and waiting > for the LLM to figure out how to make the change. I'll often run the > test cases myself, since if it takes 24 hours of VM time, and 2 hours > of wall clock time, I'm going to kick off the regression tests myself, > and verify the test results. > > And I almost always write the commit description myself. So when I > say, "Assisted-by" it literally is "Assisted by". It is not "vibe > coded where the LLM generates thousands of lines of code that the > human being doesn't understand before sending ta pull request." And > that's probably why you'll see people asserting that LLM generated > code can't possibly be accepted due to copyright reasons. There's a > big difference between asking an LLM to modify already existing code > to add a feature, or to fix a bug, and to vibe code a new OS from > scratch. One is far less likely to be a copyright violation than the > other. > > - Ted
Just curious if you know about any quantifiable insight into this. I do know that the issues also plays up in smaller requests. I once asked an LLM to give me boilerplate for a FUSE fs, and it took almost verbatim the example hello.c from the repo (which I only recognized because I had looked at that code) but stripped the copyright info. And this is only like 100 lines of code or so. Best, Jori.
