Re: [PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by references

[Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 10:56:59PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/12/26 9:24 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 04:31:37AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> The Maintainers Summit reached consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by
> >> tag. Remove the documentation requiring it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Yup, it has become as redundant as specifying what editor I use. ;)
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
> 
> and for those of us who don't know details about the discussion,
> how is it redundant?

No, I mean I use an LLM constantly for almost all aspects of my
development work, in multiple dimensions, so if the old tag requirement
held, my email body template would just put "Assisted-by: LLM" in there
because at the very least, it drove the build and test stage. It was
redundant in the sense of "yeah, of course I used an LLM at some point
for this patch". ("This tag means nothing *from* me")

> Do you assume that everyone now uses it (LLM), just as everyone
> uses an editor?

I don't make that assumption, but I always held the position that the
tag was meaningless because it's the human wielding it that matters:
they either sent a good patch or a bad patch, and if it was mangled by
gmail or an LLM, it doesn't really matter. ("This tag means nothing *to*
me")

-Kees

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Kees Cook