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Loquebantur • yesterday at 4:53 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

"A human pretends to understand it" signifies what exactly?

What you really mean is, the core team there doesn't want to lose control.

Which isn't really predicated on contributions not being "vibe coded" or whatever.

When quality is the problem, you need to be able to make your standards explicit, or you're just gatekeeping irrationally.


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anamexis • yesterday at 4:58 PM

They do make their standards explicit: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI...

What part do you think is irrational gatekeeping?

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rfgplk • yesterday at 5:25 PM

> What you really mean is, the core team there doesn't want to lose control.

It's 100% this. They basically produce vague guidelines such that only the core maintainers are allowed to use LLMs, under the guise of "well of course we understand the code" and no one else is. It's also completely unenforceable, how are they going to prove whether someone understands the code or not? Even if they show sufficient evidence/understanding the maintainers can simply sabotage them and accuse them of using an LLM to explain the code. No one wins here.

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