Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

Posted May 12, 2024 3:27 UTC (Sun) by patrakov (subscriber, #97174)
Parent article: Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

At this point, I would not worry. Commercial AI is notoriously bad (in other words, completely unusable as an assistant) at shell scripting, and maintainer scripts are shell scripts.

For example, neither ChatGPT 3.5 nor LLaMa derivatives cannot answer this question correctly; they produce various abominations instead of a one-liner with a few file descriptor redirections:

> I need some POSIX shell help. I have a pipeline, `command_a | command_b`, and sometimes `command_a` produces something on stderr. I need to capture that into a variable. Is there any way to do that without temporary files? Note that in my case, `command_b` sometimes terminates early, and `command_a` gets a SIGPIPE. I need to keep this behavior. Also, it is absolutely forbidden to run `command_a` twice.

Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

Posted May 12, 2024 7:16 UTC (Sun) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

You should definitely submit this to some sort of a contemporary Turing test corpus, if someone maintains one.

/*
Relevant meme.
Q(human, staring at a robot derisively): "Can an AI write an efficient SQL query?"
A(robot, coolly): "Can you?"
*/

Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

Posted May 12, 2024 7:41 UTC (Sun) by donald.buczek (subscriber, #112892) [Link]

> For example, neither ChatGPT 3.5 nor LLaMa derivatives cannot answer this question correctly; they produce various abominations instead of a one-liner with a few file descriptor redirections

I can confirm that the current top dog, GPT-4-0125-preview, also produces invalid code.

If you put enough energy into the dialog, you can talk it into a correct solution.