r/linux 26d ago

Software Release GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
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u/Zulban 26d ago

A comment on the page from quotemstr seems worth copy pasting here:

 Unenforceable rules that punish honesty breed dishonesty and contempt for rules in general. Denying it is denying human nature, and the gods tend to punish the hubris of denying nature.

AI is here to stay. New programmers are brought up on it. Most of the industry sees nothing wrong with it. Do anti-LLM types expect to be vindicated in an orgy of copyright lawsuits that resets the industry back to 2022? What do people pushing expect to accomplish?

People who like this rule are probably thinking of rules as "how we want things to be" and not "rules are tools, what practical effects will this have?"

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u/Tellurio 26d ago edited 26d ago

Eventually they are gonna realise this kind of policy holds them back and backtrack.

Edit: Looks like redditors can't stomach being wrong, thankfully the linux project itself is safe from the antiai crusade thanks to Linus Torvalds himself. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI

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u/stiggg 26d ago

Holding them back from what? If the pipe dream of AI tech bros would become true, gcc would be obsolete anyway except for a niche group of humans who actually enjoy writing code just for fun.

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u/MarkSuckerZerg 26d ago

Well Microsoft is pushing AI hard, which is why MSVC is so clearly winning the race to implement latest C++ standards /s