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Tsirkin" , Alistair Francis , BALATON Zoltan , Daniel P . =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?= , Fabiano Rosas , Kevin Wolf , Peter Maydell , Warner Losh , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] AGENTS.md: make the human part of the design process In-Reply-To: <20260930085433.830743-5-pbonzini@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:54:33 +0200") References: <20260930085433.830743-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> <20260930085433.830743-5-pbonzini@redhat.com> User-Agent: mu4e 1.14.4; emacs 30.1 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:56:40 +0000 Message-ID: <875wynrprb.fsf@draig.linaro.org> X-Archived-By: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::334; envelope-from=alex.bennee@linaro.org; helo=mail-wm1-x334.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: qemu development List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 Paolo Bonzini writes: > This came out of the experiment with the first version of the AGENTS.md > file. This addition improved the behavior of the agent from the very > beginning. The very first answer to the same prompt was "I'll orient > in the codebase first, then we should talk about design choices before > I write anything". > > In fact, after thinking it pointed out from the start that this requires > pre-arrangement and asked two questions (how to represent the pressure and > temperature in the QOM properties, how much of the behavior to implement). > Even with a single data point it seems worth trying. > > When asked to commit autonomously, the LLM also clarified that it > wouldn't add S-o-b trailers and that pre-arrangement was on me. > It included "Message written by an AI and to be rewritten by hand; not > for submission as is" in the commit message, a "handover notes" > section about design choices that were made without the user input, > and the umpteenth reminder that the work may only be posted if a > maintainer has agreed beforehand to review them. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Reviewed-by: Alex Benn=C3=A9e Tested-by: Alex Benn=C3=A9e --=20 Alex Benn=C3=A9e Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro