Joey Hess
American free software developer, author of git-annex and debhelper, and a Debian developer from 1996 to 2014.
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Their wordsWhat LLMs in Debian development will do, I fear, is eliminate any incentive to scrap boilerplate or reform policies that require a lot of other senseless human effort.
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LLMs will make Debian more firmly what it is and less likely to explore what it could become.
Their wordsSo they will make Debian even more firmly what it is, and ever less likely to explore what it could become.
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Their wordsIf they succeeed, Debian will become dependent on proprietary software for development, while still needing people in the loop, doing even less appealing scut-work.
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Our reading
Debian allowing LLM use in development would be reason enough for him to leave the project.
Their wordsI could speak of other harms, but that alone is enough that I'm sure that, if I had not left the project twelve years ago, I would be leaving it soon.
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Their wordsDebian has always been more than the sum of its policies, not just a ship, but a crew.
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Their wordsI hope that git-annex might also serve as an example that moving files between drives is not the best way to manage disk space use.