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Isn't the intelligence of every other person alien to ourselves? The article ends with a need to "protect our own engineering brands" but how is that communicated? I found this [https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributing-to-discourse-devel...] which seems woefully inadequate. In practice, conventions are communicated through existing code. Are human contributors capable of grasping an "engineering brand" by working on a few PRs?

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> Isn't the intelligence of every other person alien to ourselves?

If we agree that we are all humans and assume that all the other humans are conscious as one is, I think we can extrapolate that there is generic "human intelligence" concept. Even if it's pretty hard do nail it down, and even if there are several definitions of human intelligence out there.

For the other part of the comment, not too familiar with Discourse opensource approach but I guess that those rules are there mainly for employees, but since they develop in the open and public, they make them public as well.

My point was that AI-produced code is not so foreign than no human could produce it, nor do any two humans produce the same style of code. So I'm not sure exactly what the idea of "engineering brand" is meant to protect.

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