Re: [PATCH v2] docs/devel: relax policy on AI-generated contributions

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 07:14:02PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi Daniel,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the review. It will take a while to incorporate everything
>> > and I'll wait for more feedback, in the meantime just a couple things
>> > I can confirm or add...
>> 
>> I mean you could just let the LLM handle it ;-)
>> 
>> AI-used-for: collecting comments and updating patch
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> 
>> I only include this by way of an experiment. I think the new text does
>> cover the discussion although I think it has taken a fair amount of
>> verbatim text from the source messages that were commentary rather than
>> suggestions.
>
> Most importantly it has applied no critical thought to the review
> comments, seemingly treated them all as mostly equally important
> and incorporated them. The resulting text is more volumous than
> Paolo's, has poor structure and in places is verging on what I'd
> class as slop.

Well there is no "thought", although its pretty good at text extraction
from the mailing thread. I guess that's the "attention" part of the
model.

It wasn't helped by the fact there was a full lift and shift of the AI
section to a new document. In my other experiments with documentation
I've let the model do the changes and then I can review each hunk and
reword as I go.

For code changes I've found it pretty good - enough so that it might
replace my hand-rolled mechanism for saving review comments:
https://github.com/stsquad/my-emacs-stuff/blob/master/my-org.el#L176

>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro