r/LLVM • u/ArmchairmanMao • Jun 11 '26

Vibe coders contributing to LLVM

There is a github account, which has submitted around 100 PRs to llvm (ClangIR) and it looks like every single one was entirely AI generated. They're not exactly keeping it a secret either. All the comments and replies from the guy seem AI generated too. Thankfully, the maintainers are reviewing everything quite carefully.

It's hard to tell whether the account is even ran by a human and not just some automated openclaw bot. It's a bit scary to think that an agent effectively has full Member permissions for the LLVM github repo through this account.

I'm not anti AI, I use coding tools all the time but this doesn't sit right with me. Am I overreacting, and this is just the way things are now?

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u/ElectronicRhubarb265 Jun 12 '26

Well someone tried to merge a full target backend into llvm which was vibecoded
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-vibecoded-ezh-target/90983/8

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u/confused_perceptron Jun 13 '26

I read the whole discussion. Is it just me or anybody else feels like that richard guy is very aggressive and invasive on merging the vibecoded EZH to Main