--- title: What should we do with CLs generated by AI? | daily.dev description: Russ Cox addresses the Go community's concerns about AI-generated code contributions, emphasizing that traditional code review standards and software... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/apaimpxno twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What should we do with CLs generated by AI? | daily.dev og:description: Russ Cox addresses the Go community's concerns about AI-generated code contributions, emphasizing that traditional code review standards and software... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/apaimpxno og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ApAImPXnO.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What should we do with CLs generated by AI? **[Go Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/golangnuts)** · [@func25](https://daily.dev/func25) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Russ Cox addresses the Go community's concerns about AI-generated code contributions, emphasizing that traditional code review standards and software engineering fundamentals must remain unchanged regardless of tooling. He argues that contributors using AI tools still bear full responsibility for code quality, maintainability, and copyright compliance. The post clarifies that Co-Authored-By lines crediting AI should be rejected as legally confusing and informationally meaningless, while reinforcing that Google's CLA policy already covers AI-assisted contributions without special accommodation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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