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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