The GCC AI Policy Is a Warning. Nobody’s Listening.
A quiet policy proposal on the GCC mailing list reveals the coming collision between open-source trust and AI liability. When a 40-year-old compiler asks contributors to mark AI-generated code, it exposes a dilemma: every maintainer becomes a legal gatekeeper, and the spirit of permissionless collaboration is the first casualty. This isn’t just a GCC problem—it’s the future of all software.