If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to execute it on my computer.
This is a wise and sane policy.
It looks pretty easy to make a basic gnome extension. Anyone ever tried? I read the tutorial and apparently it’s just JS.
So, if you generate the code, you rewrite it before you submit it so it’s not a straight output. Also good just to have audited it.
The thing is that LLM code generation has kicked off a phenomenon of people using code gen to vomit some non working code and submit as a pull request in hopes that the project code review will help fix the slop to actually do what the person wanted.
Like before they would open a feature request, but now they’ll skip to a pull request, but really no closer to a solution than the feature request would have been. So it’s a waste of time because you think you are reviewing something that actually did what the user wanted and puzzle over how it could possibly have worked before realizing the proposed code was fresh from codegen without so much as even trying it out.
My comment is not about that. The person doing the genning has to rewrite it before they can submit it. They’ll probably fix the problems as well if they put more than a sliver of effort, which would be needed to get past the pr audit.
Note the guidelines specifically say LLM is fine, but the submitter most be able to actually own the code. Basically if they can’t tell, then fine. However they don’t need to expand a great deal of effort rationalizing rejection of obvious first pass codegen fodder, they can cite this policy.
Basically a reaction to various people saying “you don’t need to know how to code or have skills to contribute code” (literally a quote from an email I received about Gemini 3). If all you have is the idea, just do the feature request. If an LLM can handle it, then one of the devs can do it. Going into an LLM knowing what it is and directly iterating on it might be helpful, but treating LLM input with a human middleman is just maddening.
It’s their project they can have whatever rules they want. Besides with code gen making people soooo much more productive you could just create your own competing open source project right?
I didn’t say the rules were a bad thing
