RFC: The Binutils and LLM generated patches

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Mon Oct 13 13:36:43 GMT 2025


Hi Alice,

>>> 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.

Ah, I was worried that this might be the case.  In which case lets just drop the
"LLM-Query:" tag altogether.  It sounds like it will not achieve anything anyway.

Cheers
   Nick




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