Re: [PATCH] docs: remove Assisted-by references

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:20:18 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> writes:
> 
> > On 09/10/2026 10:31, Sasha Levin wrote:  
> >> The Maintainers Summit reached consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by
> >> tag. Remove the documentation requiring it.  
> >
> > Please provide here some sort of arguments used in that summit
> > consensus/discussion. This basically reverts/changes previous consensus
> > [1], which is fine itself, but it lacks reasoning.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/2026070224-unholy-commode-cf45@gregkh/  
> 
> I'm working on a report on the discussion, don't worry...Monday or
> Tuesday probably.

But changes like this should not rely on LWN articles. They need to be
presented in mailing list.

Honestly, I would like to have a "Vibe-coded-with:" tag. Why?, when I
do a git blame and want to ask the author why they did the change the
way they did, I would likely not expect much if they vibe coded it.

When we first started talking about what constitutes an Assisted-by tag
(using AI to debug, or review, or simply add templates), there wasn't
really any agreement to where it should stop. I have always been of the
idea that I want to know if someone actually wrote the code. If all you
did was use prompts, then you didn't write it. You simply instructed
a computer what to do. Much like helping a junior engineer. But with a
junior engineer, they would have the authorship and signed-off-by and
the kernel developer would likely just get "suggested-by". But we don't
do that for computers. But still it should be tagged that the author
didn't write the code somehow.

I wasn't at the maintainer summit to express my opinion so I'm doing it
here.

-- Steve