Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions
Date:
Tue, 26 May 2026 17:50:35 +0000
Description:
Rodrigo Arias Mallo, maintainer of the Dillo web browser, has written a blog post with a proposal on one way to ensure that a contribution is written by
a human and not AI; he suggests asking new contributors to record
their programming session using asciinema . In the same way that LLMs
generate patches, they can also generate
the asciinema recordings themselves. Then, the contributors can lie to
the reviewers pretending to have made the edits. Perhaps surprisingly,
this is not a easy task for LLMs, at least from my observations. The
corpus of recordings of developers making mistakes and thinking the
whole process of editing a file is not as large as the corpus of FOSS
programs and patches in which to train an LLM. During my very simple
tests I haven't been able to generate an asciinema session that
remotely resembles what I would expect from a human, and even less so
from a human with a nice editor theme and editing an existing Dillo
source file. The Dillo project is not yet requiring asciinema recordings, but he
said that he would like to test the theory further. LWN covered asciinema in January 2026.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1074534/
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