Some of the worst LLM takes I've seen in a while. I've never thought FLOSS would be taken over by proprietary torment nexuses so fast.

The discussion will probably continue behind closed doors, so the public has no way of knowing who says what and corporations have their way easier.

And someone got exposed for being a Nazi.

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[–] 23 points 4 days ago (4 children)
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    link returns "Work item not found" for me; is it deleted?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    If you are still donating to KDE please consider cancelling and let the KDE devs know.

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    LLM usage

    The golden rule for LLM usage in KDE is Don't be lazy:

    Don't try to use a tool to replace your own judgment, interpersonal communication, or learning process.

    Don't take unsustainable shortcuts.

    Don't avoid growing as a person.

    The result will be poor-quality work that eventually becomes someone else's problem.

    Nobody in KDE should know if you use an LLM — not because you're concealing it, but because your usage of it produces output indistinguishable from what you could produce yourself. Contributions with obvious and lazy LLM usage may be ignored or closed.

    Are we reading that same thing? Hardly seems like a pro LLM stance or the worst take that could be made.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago* (7 children)

    I don’t get the fuss here. The KDE LLM policy is essentially the same as the Linux kernel. Aka human driven, human responsible, LLM assisted coding.

    Unless you are running KDE on NetBSD you where already using LLM assisted code.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    I don’t get the fuss here. The KDE LLM policy is essentially the same as the Linux kernel.

    Psssst! Slop in the kernel is also bad

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  • [–] -4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

    Have you seen the quality of the code in the kernel? I am no c fan but the bar and standards are incredibly high.

    The kernel is certainly LLM assisted but I don’t think any honest dev can look at say the recent LLM assisted code and call it slop. If anything the quality of Linux code has gotten higher over the past decade.

    I am not a fan of vibe coded slop and I don’t think it’s fair to call the kernel slop.

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