Re: LLM based rewrites

From: Steven Rostedt

Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 14:34:10 EST


On Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:19:42 -0700
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't think LLMs will be able to come up with the necessary proof of
> separation without essentially recreating the clean room process, which
> grows cost prohibitive as the complexity of the work increases.

I con see one AI bot reading the original code, and then making the prompts
to pass to a second AI bot to produce the code.

That is basically exactly how clean rooms work for humans. Now the question
is, would courts agree that is a clean room?

-- Steve