[kwlug-disc] On usage ... on simplistic usage of GenAI in Node project

Mikalai Birukou mb at 3nsoft.com
Wed Mar 18 21:06:57 EDT 2026


>>   From discussions there, link to LLVM's approach:
>> https://llvm.org/docs/AIToolPolicy.html
>>
>> If human didn't understand it, it is not reliable.
>>
>> Which suggests, that vibe-coding with explicit "don't look into
>> resulting code" approach is not ok.
> Projects seem to want to deal with the copyright of contributions.

I feel that people's reaching for copyright is just a misguided, 
improperly articulated frustrations that they have. And copyright used 
to be a hammer.

People may wipe asses of their own babies. And even here magical diapers 
is a big-cash industry.
But cleaning slop after machine? Noone likes it. These PR's feel like FU 
in 19K LoC.

If a parent of output would've done a review, then it could've been ok. 
In fact initially quoted PR, it seems, was done by person that votes in 
node foundation or something. He has no excuse to provide code that goes 
off node's style. The most charitable assumption is that he is on 
endogenic drugs, caused by Cool-Aid consumption.
It is the charitable interpretation of what I saw there. I am sure that 
reviewer was the first human to look into lines, that hacker would look 
for SQL-inlining-like places.
Have I mentioned that it is node.js?

Discussions are side tracked because of emotional shrapnel. Slop is 
real, and parents should clean it, instead of passing smelly job to others.
AI usage conversation becomes simpler, when we start to talk about 
responsibilities. And students can't be told that with AI one can shut 
off ones brain. I see these commercials, and this marketing ... 
misdirection, to put it mildly, should not be followed.

Parent of code is expected to have a mental model of it. ... Before we 
create machines that actually have intelligence.




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