Call to ban AI commits

I see that the Nix Homeowner’s Association is still in session.

Have we made any progress on the backlog? It seems odd to worry about industry issues from 2023–that we can’t do anything about–when we still have open issues in nixpkgs from a decade prior–that we can.

Over a third of our packages are unmaintained. We need all the help we can get. LLMs give us some resources to help fix that. Arguing about LLMs takes away from the attention economy that would otherwise be used to support the actual work.

Many of these posts arguing one way or the other are longer than the commands that would be required to actually update or fix or test these packages.

Y’all, this is embarrassing.

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