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

[Paul Nijjar]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 08:40:56PM +0000, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
>  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.
> 

Putting aside the environmental externalities of LLMs, this seems like
a pretty good policy. 

Given the strong anti-LLM bias from many in open source (the majority
of whom are on Mastodon, it seems) this crisis might result in a
fascinating natural experiment:

Popular project X has a schism over whether to allow LLM-generated
contributions, and has a fork. One side of the fork allows
LLM-generated contributions, and the other prohibits it. 
Which project is more successful? Why?

There are all kinds of variables here to disentangle:
- Maybe one fork attracts many more core maintainers than the other
- Maybe one fork is inundated with unwanted slop PRs than the other
- Maybe one fork benefits from a surfeit of 10x programmers as
  compared to the other

but looking at the outcomes of such natural experiments could be
helpful in understanding which of these variables matter.

- Paul