Re: AI-assisted review

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 08:04:54AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 25/05/2026 16:39, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 03:29:50PM +0100, Josh Law wrote:
> >> On May 25, 2026 3:27:18 PM GMT+01:00, Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 03:25:19PM +0100, Josh Law wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> But most projects do generally ban AI anything.
> >>>>
> >>>> Idk what we could do for u-boot when it comes to a sashiko like
> >>> solution.
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe we could talk about it?
> >>>
> >>> Proposing a policy for the project about AI (and indeed not just linking
> >>> to other projects which have what I find to be helpful references) is on
> >>> the TODO list for the project leadership committee. We've just been
> >>> busily handling other issues for a while now, unfortunately.
> 
> For kernel:
> https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux.git/commit/?h=docs-next&id=48c3876a6a6f78578ccd0fec71ef67fd6a3fd6f5

That's good to know, and we should pick that up too as it is clarifying
for everyone that is acting in good faith.

> >> I could put something into suggestion:
> >>
> >>
> >> So, for patches: you could do assisted bys, and it depends on the
> >> maintainer, etc etc like Linux,
> >>
> >>
> >> And for reviews: that's actually hard to think about, because some
> >> maintainers love using AI review tools because it's useful, others
> >> don't particularly like tools like that, maybe a opt-in "reviewman"?
> >>
> >> But tbh that's up for discussion.
> > 
> > Thanks for offering, but it's going to be a large / contentious enough
> > issue that we haven't gotten to it yet, unfortunately.
> > 
> 
> Before you waste too much time, that person uses vibe coding without any
> control and without any supervision, so that's basically AI slop.
> 
> Also, in terms of reviewing whatever review they would provide has
> little value. I am sure Josh Law would be happy to give "AI-slop" review
> and get tags for that.

Thanks again for the heads-up there.

-- 
Tom

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