[PATCH RFC] coding-assistants: simplify attribution

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

I remain very confused by our coding assistant contribution guidelines.
I'm going to be a bit polemic now but this seriously in good faith.

Why precisely do we require all this detailed information about what
specific coding assistant was used?

I find it very irritating that our git history has effectively started
to function a bit like a free advertising platform for a bunch of AI
companies and their proprietary agents and models.

And it reamins unclear to me what exactly we do get out of this detailed
information: Do we want to run statistical analysis on what agent and
model is used the most and publish that on LWN at some point?

I acknowledge that my stance is even more radical: imho we would just
stop it with any disclosure requirements completely. It's useless imho.
We already see that other than core contributors most people don't care
and will just not disclose their usage of AI. I think this is entirely
pointless and worse it brings in undefined legal status as well. It's
not like recent events of pulling certain models from the face of the
earth have made this any less concerning.

But fine, if we want to do this can we please just dumb it down to

Assisted-by: LLM

or

Assisted-by: Coding Assistant

or something else. That still gives the "careful review" signal to
reviewers that want to pay special attention to LLM generated work while
avoiding this slew of metadata.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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 Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
index 899f4459c52d..fe34f3e7e828 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
@@ -43,12 +43,8 @@ When AI tools contribute to kernel development, proper attribution
 helps track the evolving role of AI in the development process.
 Contributions should include an Assisted-by tag in the following format::
 
-  Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
+  Assisted-by: LLM [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
 
-Where:
-
-* ``AGENT_NAME`` is the name of the AI tool or framework
-* ``MODEL_VERSION`` is the specific model version used
 * ``[TOOL1] [TOOL2]`` are optional specialized analysis tools used
   (e.g., coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy)
 
@@ -56,4 +52,4 @@ Basic development tools (git, gcc, make, editors) should not be listed.
 
 Example::
 
-  Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse
+  Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle sparse

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change-id: 20260701-work-coding-assistants-650ae1202ee0