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Good enough to raise the discussion no ? > > Just to be clear: Unchecked AI slop in any form is making my life > worse every day. I think eveyone's life who contributes reguarly to the kernel.. The only ones who seem to benifit are people doing drive by patches! There is so much more harder work on the maintainer side, and it is now even harder to get patches picked up on the submitter side. Yet responsible use of AI seems genuinely helpful and quality improving :\ Jason