EarMaster comments on Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI"

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

That's true. Nonetheless the maintainers seem to see AI as a valid way to reduce their workload.

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[–] abc@suppo.fi 4 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

As someone who has done package management for a distro at one point in my life... after the initial push, it is so incredibly boring.

I think AI should do all of it. I'm entirely certain that things would be better, not worse, if we did. 99% of problems related to that stuff is because it's so fucking boring that humans just simply cannot pay the kind of attention it requires to be safe.

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[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Current AI is still like that incredibly knowledgeable senior dev with a drug problem. Everything done by AI still needs to be checked by a human in case the AI just hallucinated the wildest shit even though it did the same thing just right ten times before.
Right now, AI is a great tool. It will probably become reliable enough to replace human maintainers. But no one knows when that happens.

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[–] abc@suppo.fi 1 point 1 month ago*

Current AI is still like that incredibly knowledgeable senior dev with a drug problem.

So you mean exactly like most package maintainers prior to AI?

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