Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove the requirement for LLM attribution

[Jori Koolstra]

> Op 03-07-2026 04:57 CEST schreef Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx>:
> 
>  
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 12:46:19PM -0500, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > It would make sense IMHO to address the ignorance in the most expedient manner,
> > namely by telling the *LLM itself* to add this tag when it generates the commit
> > message and/or reviews the code.
> > 
> > This could be achieved by adding a statement in "AGENTS.md" in the root of the
> > source tree to this effect, or telling the agent to reference and follow rules
> > in Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst regarding the Assisted-by: tag.
> 
> This presupposes a particular workflow where the developer allows the
> LLM to generate git commits.  I don't do that.  I'll ask the LLM to
> modify the code, but then I'll generally fix it up --- very often by
> hand because I can edit the sources than entering a prompt and waiting
> for the LLM to figure out how to make the change.  I'll often run the
> test cases myself, since if it takes 24 hours of VM time, and 2 hours
> of wall clock time, I'm going to kick off the regression tests myself,
> and verify the test results.
> 
> And I almost always write the commit description myself.  So when I
> say, "Assisted-by" it literally is "Assisted by".  It is not "vibe
> coded where the LLM generates thousands of lines of code that the
> human being doesn't understand before sending ta pull request."  And
> that's probably why you'll see people asserting that LLM generated
> code can't possibly be accepted due to copyright reasons.  There's a
> big difference between asking an LLM to modify already existing code
> to add a feature, or to fix a bug, and to vibe code a new OS from
> scratch.  One is far less likely to be a copyright violation than the
> other.
> 
> 						- Ted

Just curious if you know about any quantifiable insight into this. I do know
that the issues also plays up in smaller requests. I once asked an LLM to
give me boilerplate for a FUSE fs, and it took almost verbatim the example
hello.c from the repo (which I only recognized because I had looked at that code)
but stripped the copyright info. And this is only like 100 lines of code or so.

Best,
Jori.