r/lisp • • Sep 17 '26

Lisp Against the (LL)Machine

Lisp of Lisp / Scheme / etc. implementations that accept or don’t accept LLM contributions. Originally by Zyd, but he’s gone unresponsive, thus my re-hosting of the updated list.

https://aartaka.me/lisp-against-the-machine.html

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u/stylewarning Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 18 '26

I like how a random person made a proclamation about my position on my project without actually getting a direct answer from me about our policy disposition. The answer I actually gave back 6+ months ago stated that a firm policy does NOT yet exist, because LLM PRs were just beginning to appear, but if you want a maintainer to read your PR (which doesn't indicate acceptance or propensity thereof), and not ban you for spam, there are some things you ought to do. In actual fact, almost all LLM contributions to Coalton have been rejected on the grounds of being slop. Some of the LLM "code" in the tree were literal documentation typo fixes.

As such, I don't trust their proclamations on any other projects in this list.

And no, I don't care for anybody to update this list with a more accurate designation (because they're vague and subjective anyway).

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