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colesantiago

> and ideally vote for a total ban.

If a total ban were to happen, wouldn't that make Debian a target for hackers who can use LLMs to find vulnerabilities?

How would Debian keep up with the influx of AI assisted 0 days?

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Not using AI to write production code doesn't mean you can't use AI proactively to find vulnerabilities.

Poster wants a "total ban", you can only deduce that means vulnerability management also.

Or you could read the proposal and deduce nothing.

It explicitly excludes security fixes.

Oh the hypocrisy...

Exactly, agreed 100% https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_land_of_the_blind,_the...

H. G. Wells wrote about how this proverb has limitations [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Blind

No analogy, comparison (add your own language construct) is ever 100% true. Perhaps you should consider that my intent behind this was to say, that Debian will be blind, without ANY eyes.

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