GCC GSoC 2026: Call for project ideas and mentors

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 at 20:36, Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> If GSoC does not have, we should, at least, set a clear expectation as to
> how usage of AI in completing the project is [not] allowed and should be
> documented.

Yes, please. The GSoC mentors' discussions I can find in my inbox
don't exactly suggest such a clear policy
being in place, and various participating organizations have their
own. And I would venture a suggestion
that such a policy should be there in general for GCC, not just for
GCC GSoC projects.

In various places, people are being reminded, rather than newly told,
that blindly merging LLM-generated code
is as bad (and in some ways exactly as bad) as blindly copying code
from a random internet site, even if the
name of that site is "StackOverflow" and you really really like the
site. The problems are identical, and such blind copying can't be
accepted,
due to copyright reasons.