Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

Needless to say, if there’s a rule against AI then I just won’t contribute at all. That’s no big loss—I don’t run Debian and wouldn’t be contributing anyway—but in the hypothetical case I did, I wouldn’t want to break the rules and also wouldn’t want to lose hours of time writing the same exact letters the AI would’ve produced.

I don’t think it has a negative impact on the code quality. If anything, the fact I need to explain what I’m doing in the form of comments so the AI will be useful feels like it makes the result better, not worse. It does need a bit of discipline to actually review the output, and I don’t usually look at the autocompletion unless I already know what I want—finding bugs is harder than matching it against what was in my head—but even with this limited usage I think it speeds me up by 50-100%.

Please don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.