@cstross That makes them roughly ten times larger than the Stasi.

@jackpearse @lproven That one's easy: people who submit AI code just can't resist boasting about the fact.

@lproven Given how Debian went for a both-sides approach when it came to systemd, which is now a de facto hard requirement even if Debian technically supports other init systems, one doesn't need a crystal ball to know how this vote will play out.

@jackpearse @downey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing

@david_chisnall "it is a machine that is trained on code that made it past code review". Are you sure of that? Since a large part of the corpus is presumably code scraped from the likes of StackExchange and GitHub, I'd argue that it's mostly trained on newbies' misconceptions and unfinished personal projects which were abandoned because they were too ambitious or didn't work.