<![CDATA[I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable.]]>I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable.

That is undeniably true and telling at the same time. It is essentially confirming that there are a significant number of people who - if told "we don't want LLM-generated contributions" will say "I don't care what you want, I'm going to use them anyway and you should take this whether you want it or not."

There is a massive amount of entitlement that lies behind that.

I think it'd be dumb for a project to refuse contributions created in Vim, or Emacs. Yet, if that was the rule, I'd either observe it or go away. I wouldn't even bother to argue it for a large and popular project or for a single-maintainer project, because I would conclude they'd already had the debate and made up their minds.

Maintainers have a right to set conditions for reviewing and accepting patches. If something is FOSS they've already given users the ability to fork off and do something that doesn't fit with the maintainer's vision, schedule, or whatever.

It seems wrong to me to have that freedom and insist that a maintainer compromise their standards because a person doesn't agree with them.

There's always _somebody_ that feels entitled to do whatever the hell they want; so if this was just one-offs it wouldn't bug me. What bugs me is that this seems to be a widely held position.

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This bit is basically why I came around to your position:

> Maintainers have a right to set conditions for reviewing and accepting patches. If something is FOSS they've already given users the ability to fork off and do something that doesn't fit with the maintainer's vision, schedule, or whatever.

This is literally how FOSS works. It is an Anarchy. Forks happen all the time for "personal" and "political" reasons, and I think (systemic view at least) this is a good thing

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jhwgh1968/statuses/116415953068706377https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jhwgh1968/statuses/116415953068706377Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:07:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:05:58 GMT]]>@onepict @jzb They certainly remind me of the "we can't enforce a mask mandate" and "we don't need a Code of Conduct" crowd.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/alxndr/statuses/116415945669670608https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/alxndr/statuses/116415945669670608Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:05:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:31:00 GMT]]>@jzb I mean, these people are using products based on ignoring consent, and that has bled over into their attitude to the world

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mattly/statuses/116415808191766510https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mattly/statuses/116415808191766510Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:31:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:01:25 GMT]]>@jzb yeah I saw a couple of comments like that on the vi lwn article.

Thank you for commenting on this.

As a woman I found it rather jarring reading the "how could you tell" type commentary.

It really gives huge vibes of entitlement and reminds me of pickup culture and I honestly expected better of FOSS.

But we're only as good as the culture around us. But folks attitudes to projects having a no LLM policy reminds me of why I wrote this:

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/onepict/statuses/116415691823053033https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/onepict/statuses/116415691823053033Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:01:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:48:07 GMT]]>@jzb I kinda think there should be such a thing as the "unenforceability fallacy", crystallising this situation.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/miblo/statuses/116415639533457998https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/miblo/statuses/116415639533457998Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:48:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:45:50 GMT]]>@jzb There's a pretty big gap to me between

human-made vs machine-made

and

vi vs emacs

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/downey/statuses/116415630555584267https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/downey/statuses/116415630555584267Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:45:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it more than a bit sad that in conversations about banning LLM-driven contributions, the first objection that often comes up is that the rule is unenforceable. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:41:00 GMT]]>@jzb CC: @zkat Just mentioning you here, because you've (sadly) been on the receiving end of this quite recently...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ermo/statuses/116415611582022506https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ermo/statuses/116415611582022506Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:41:00 GMT