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bArray • today at 1:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I think it is false to equate this to just two options:

    a) spend my valuable developer time (this is my free time) on reading machine
    output which indeed might be completely wrong and get angry and upset for
    reasons which have been listed in great detail by those opposed to LLM-use in
    Debian on debian-vote

    b) not read the machine-generate review and have the resources that were
    required to generate it not only be wasted, but let my upload become another
    item in a statistic which shows how many tokens Debian is using up because the
    more tokens we use the better our software, right?
The fix for this could just be an opt-in/out for automated LLM review. It's just an additional tool and consideration.

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silveraxe93 • today at 2:11 PM

That's not false. That's why he literally asked to be able to opt out.

> I will not upload anything to NEW unless there is a way for me to opt out of this. I would prefer if the default was "no LLM review" and that developers have to explicitly opt-in to receive an auto-generated review.

But as the system stands he only has those 2 options. Which is why he will not use the system until they add a 3rd one.