Concerning LLM and “agents” in Nixpkgs contributions and Nix* tooling: chaotic enby: "My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, fi…" - Wikis World, Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models - Wikipedia.
Whether you’re a LW-fanfic enjoying rational effective altruist, or an “AI” skeptic, Wikipedia’s is the only meaningful stance. That is unless your bet is “deny the training material by contaminating Nixpkgs”, in which case I think your plan isn’t going to… show much yield.
The human-made decisions, and holistic human-created designs are the main value proposition of this project. Going slow once in a centralized venue is the point. Think of Nixpkgs as of those “12 bits per second” shared memory of Software Development.
If we wish for our trust processes to keep functioning, we need to keep the Nixpkgs codebase explicitly clean, and “agents” explicitly out of the loop.
If we wish to train our own language models, we also need to keep Nixpkgs explicitly clean (to the extent it’s possible, given that our cognitive processes are already affected), and the existing contaminants labeled.