code development with AI

[Vincent Delecroix]

Dear all,

As part of a personal experimentation, I made a PR for SageMath where
Claude (the AI by Anthropic) was intensively used. See
https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/42344. I was positively
impressed by the efficiency gain.

I think it would be good to set up a policy for AI generated code in
SageMath... Should we even allow it as it is sloppy with respect to
open source?

Best,
Vincent

[kcrisman]

Those are both good points.  For reference, the downstream (in a loose sense) project PreTeXt has some developers using Claude in various ways, and documenting this on PRs.  Are there other Python ecosystem typical policies/habits around this?

[Martin R]

I think there is less of a problem with producing pull requests, but rather with reviewing them - no matter whether generated by a human or a large language model.