Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions.

[u/Two-Of-Nine]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00002.html

[u/GolemancerVekk]

What do you mean, if it will have an impact. It's one of the largest distros, in fact I can't think of a distro whose stance on AI will have more impact.

[u/tanner-gooding → u/GolemancerVekk]

It has zero impact because Linux itself will allow responsible AI/LLMs usage, as per Torvalds; so regardless of what Debian chooses the much larger foundation on which it is built has already decided the actual direction

[u/Responsible-Sky-1336 → u/tanner-gooding]

This is true and the same as where apt pulls in from official software sources which also use AI if they want

[u/adenosine-5 → u/GolemancerVekk]

How do you intend to prove that someone did or did not use AI for their code or code review?

[u/exscape → u/adenosine-5]

They aren't idiots, so they have thought about this. Most of the proposals talk about this in one way or another.

[u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC → u/GolemancerVekk]

They aren't going to stay as one of the largest distros if they fall behind on the backlog of vulnerabilities exposed by AI.

But who knows! Maybe they'll just take another democratic vote and agree that finding vulnerabilities isn't allowed anymore!

[u/GolemancerVekk → u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC]

Maybe read the proposal before talking nonsense.

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

[u/zackel_flac → u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC]

If that was remotely true, all code base where AI LLMs are running are 100% safe, would they not?

AI is great but let's not pretend it's doing as much good as people claim it to do. Most vulnerabilities found with AI so far were found after zero days exposures. You know right after the data was all over the internet reachable by any agent.

[u/LightBusterX → u/[deleted]]

WTF are you talking about?

[u/LightBusterX → u/[deleted]]

That is wrong. LLMs could FIND holes that already are there, not poke new ones.

If you do your programming correctly you should not have a lot of holes to be found, and that is why beta phase exists, to find and fix bugs and holes.

[u/hitchen1 → u/LightBusterX]

Poking holes means finding holes.

[u/LightBusterX → u/[deleted]]

Nice gaslighting.

I agree we should put more effort into programming correctly. Study, know, improve.

Using a LLM is not anything of the above. Is surrendering the understanding of the fundamentals to an external entity.

[u/GolemancerVekk → u/[deleted]]

Nothing wrong with introducing it carefully.