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@grok is this true?

peter_griffinon The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

>As always, the most ethical thing to do is to just ignore any anti-LLM policies and not disclose anything

How does this have anything to do with ethics? Its their project not yours, they can reject your PR for whatever reason, including you using LLMs for developing that PR. Also they're not assuming autonomous agents submitting PRs. They're saying that they do not accept PRs where any part of the thinking process was outsourced to a LLM.

Even if you disagree with their opinion, the ethical thing to do is to not interact and move on. Not to try to sneak in your LLM assisted PRs without the maintainers consent.

peter_griffinon Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Congrats, never thought I'd see 2 digits in this thread haha

peter_griffinon Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

how do you know?

peter_griffinon Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#

wouldn't you have the same restrictions/tradeoffs using go (or other compiled languages)?

I've never used go, am curious

peter_griffinon Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

owned by a non profit instead of microsoft

peter_griffinon US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

>Why should a government prohibit private parties from agreeing to anything other than those 3 things?

because ToS have been long used to demand unreasonable things and threaten people with expensive lawsuits. The advantage of companies losing bullying power significantly outweighs the disadvantage of less business freedom

ToS are normally "contracts" (hard to even call them that) between a large corporation with very high resources for a lawsuit and an individual with very low resources. The power imbalance makes challenging ToS for the individual unfeasible in 99% of cases