@mitsuhiko: I think it would be great if people were upfront about declaring their own understanding of a topic / their pull reques…
Summary
Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) suggests that people should be upfront about their actual understanding of a topic when making pull requests, as AI tools (referred to as 'clanker') make it easy to sound confident without real knowledge.
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