From 07fb5be15363acc12d91fcace01dba663fdc672c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: konsti Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:13:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Contributing: Do not use LLMs for communication (#18110) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Had another PR this morning where I was just talking to an LLM. This is the minimum to LLM usage, not yet addressing yet how to use LLMs for coding responsibly. * ✅ **Impact**: Edited the contributing guide * ✅ **Actionable**: The change addressed an evolving situation * ✅ **Correctness**: Performed a grammar pass – this is now ready for review --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index c76be7475..5c1338b13 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ exploration of new features, we will almost always close these pull requests imm new feature to uv creates a long-term maintenance burden and requires strong consensus from the uv team before it is appropriate to begin work on an implementation. +Do not use LLMs such as Claude Code or ChatGPT for communication. LLMs are notoriously unreliable +and make up smart sounding but ultimately wrong claims. Instead, phrase issue and pull request +comments in your own words. It's not important to sound perfect, but that we can follow what problem +you're trying to solve and why the pull request uses a correct approach. + ## Setup [Rust](https://rustup.rs/) (and a C compiler) are required to build uv.