alt Hacker NewsThen it should be clarified.
To me "no LLMs for finding bugs" means what it means, which implicitly means "we prefer to have bugs than for you to use a LLM". It is weird, may result in worse code, but it can be justified for ideological reasons, and I mean, why not, it is your project, your rules.
In the unlikely even I contribute one day, reading this rule, I will turn off my LLMs completely and my submissions will probably have bugs that could have been avoided using a LLM based debugging pass, but that's the rule, and I won't discuss it because it is also the rule.
If the intent is to avoid flooding maintainers with bug reports, say "no LLMs for bug reporting".
That's not my read, at least not if you give them enough credit to use their software.
My read is any LLM use should be opaque to them. You should be able to explain your bug find in your own words, have formatted as the project expects, not have any LLM generated comments (which trend towards being useless anyways)
The wording of the post is very clever, if you're green you read it and you say "I'm banned because I use Claude". If you're experienced enough you can read the message between the lines: "if you use LLMs, it should still have gone through your brain before it reaches mine, so I'm not turned into a meat puppet by proxy"