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harmonic dilettante. ludic dabbler. go birds. TL applying functional programming to infra automation by day. technology sans humanity is garbage.
harmonic dilettante. ludic dabbler. go birds. TL applying functional programming to infra automation by day. technology sans humanity is garbage.
![Excerpt from Debian proposal to ban LLM generated code
LLM output has many well-known problems with accuracy.[3][4][5] A LLM can never "know" if its output is correct since it merely produces syntactically likely combinations of the training data. In some environments this is good enough. In Debian, it is not. For instance, in packaging, each Debian source package is unique.
Since packaging syntax and best practices have changed over time, a LLM-produced package will have a mixture of contents spanning the age of the archive, with watch files that do not work, overrides out of context, imaginary copyright, and will generally be unfit for upload. A seasoned Debian contributor with packaging expertise may find some limited usefulness here, but a new contributor cannot, and would not know how to fix it. These same quality and accuracy concerns apply clearly to all of the areas listed in the scope of this proposal above. If Debian were a closed organization comprising only domain experts who never leave, this might not be an issue; however,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vkif2e4j4qz3t3uv4rxqwxf3/bafkreib5kdgzwr2riv4v73kh5bbevjguq3ead3nsslujnrfsdqep4ivvgm)
