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raphinou • yesterday at 4:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

In my project's readme I put this text:

   "There is no commit by an agent user, for two reasons:

    * If an agent commits locally during development, the code is reviewed and often thoroughly modified and rearranged by a human.
    * I don't want to push unreviewed code to the repo, so I have set up a git hook refusing to push commits done by an LLM agent."
It's not that I want to hide the use of llms, I just modified code a lot before pushing, which led me to this approach. As llms improve, I might have to change this though.

Interested to read opinions on this approach.

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embedding-shape • yesterday at 4:55 PM

> * I don't want to push unreviewed code to the repo, so I have set up a git hook refusing to push commits done by an LLM agent."

Seems... Not that useful?

Why would someone make commits in your local projects without you knowing about it? That git hook only works on your own machine, so you're trying to prevent yourself from pushing code you haven't reviewed, but the only way that can happen is if you use an agent locally that also make commits, and you aren't aware of it?

I'm not sure how you'd end up in that situation, unless you have LLMs running autonomously on your computer that you don't have actual runtime insights into? Which seems like it'd be a way bigger problem than "code I didn't reviewed was pushed".

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