GrapheneOS is currently defending its use of AI coding tools on Mastodon against complaints by various accounts claiming to be users.

We do not understand where you’re coming from or why you’re so incredibly angry with us. It’s not justified and does not make sense.

  • 0x4f1@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    This is the key point.

    From my reading that is not the limit in how they are using AI. It seems like they are accepting LLM generated code as inputs.

    This pretty much compromises the whole project as far as I am concerned.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      Based on my understanding, the “core” team uses AI to detect vulnerabilities.

      They also take codes from paid third party devs, and they say they don’t mind how they wrote the code, but it must be clear and each contributor needs to be able to explain it.

      They follow the same rules on code conventions including readability. So basically, it’s less that they accept it than they don’t care as long as it matches their quality expectations. If you can’t tell, you can’t ban…

    • verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      Considering Graphene’s entire reputation is staked on extremely precise definitions of security, this is a little concerning.

      They’re the best. If the best degrades, I don’t foresee some Graphene alternative stepping up very quickly (see also: cross-platform alternatives to Google-made Chromium and Google-funded Gecko)

      • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        is the linux kernel “the best”? because they are using AI tooling. Linus actually threatened to use LLM to maintain sparse if nobody stepped up…

        is curl the best? because the creator of curl has also used/accepted LLM code…

        if the creators of two of “the best” pieces of software ever made are accepting (NOT embracing or promoting… just accepting) LLM code… maybe it’s time for us to think about the possibility that this MIGHT be a useful tool instead of everyone just yelling “SLOP SLOP SLOP” everywhere…