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Mesa updating contributor guide

2025-09-17 20:29:39.428245+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Faith Ekstrand @gfxstrand@treehouse.systems

Mesa is working to update our contributor guide. Can you guess why?

Did you guess AI?

...

The whole rant is good, and talks about a particular submittal of an LLM generated speed- up, but without the submitter understanding why the speed-up occurred, and a bunch of cruft that the person processing the merge request had to sort through. I've heard a bunch of people talking about using LLMs to learn things, and this is an example of people accomplishing things (maybe) without learning them.

That seems fraught.

(The Mesa 3D Graphics Library)

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