AI code review (Claude, maybe Codex)

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 4/7/26 08:35, Thibaut wrote:
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>> Le 7 avr. 2026 à 05:57, David Lang <david at lang.hm> a écrit :
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>> Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
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>>> On 4/6/26 19:33, JP wrote:
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>>>>   - these platforms are subsidised (in the extreme) by (provably society-damaging) VC-funds; any attempt at building infrastructure upon this without significant review/planning/estimation strikes me as potentially high risk
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>>> Isn't this good? OpenWrt can profit from these VC-funds.
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>> exactly, where is the project risk? there is no talk of eliminateing all manual review (even if "AI" approves it, that doesn't mean that it's the right thing for real hardware, or the project overall)
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> Seeing how a lot of people (myself included) hate to have to deal with a chatbot any time they're trying to reach a human, I’d say the risk here is to put off contributors if all they get (or the first thing they get) is a chatbot review.

Currently we put off contributors by not reacting to their PR at all. 
There are many PRs which did not get any comment at all. On many people 
only add the first comment after more than a week, then the contributor 
is often not interested any more and this comment was useless.
The CI is running on all PRs, it complains about too long commit titles 
and similar things.

> Besides, (and perhaps more importantly) this doesn’t really address the fact that using chatbots is actively contributing to setting the planet on fire, if that’s something that matters to the project.

Processing this mail also consumed a lot of energy. It will be scanned 
by at least 100 spam filters and the AI companies will use it to train 
their system.

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>> if/when it goes away, will the project be in any worse position than it is now?
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> Yes if it gets bad rep as a byproduct.
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> My 2c for the not-so-enthusiastic camp.
> T.

Hauke