RFC: The Binutils and LLM generated patches

[Alice Carlotti]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 11:44:50AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > > Generated-By: GNU-LLM version 1.0 LLM-Query: Create a program to solve all GNU problems
> > 
> > While something like this might be useful when using some deterministic tools I think it isn't useful for LLMs.
> 
> Yeah, Sid also mentioned this.  I have now added this paragraph to my
> local copy of the text:
> 
>   The LLM-Query needs to be recorded for auditing purposes,
>   but is not expected to produce the exact same output due
>   to the non-deterministic nature of LLMs.
> 

There's another issue with this - many LLM sessions take the form of a lengthy
conversation, and not just a single prompt.  I think recording a full
conversation in a commit message (including possible irrelevant context) would
be excessive, but there might not be any smaller part of the conversation that
could be described as *the* query.

Alice