Non-native English speakers and the use of language assistance

Matt, please accept my sincere apology. I do not want to disrespect you or ignore you. Yes, when I am engaged and focussed – getting me to listen is not always easy, but honestly, that issue precedes AI use.

I would really like to get this discussion somewhere and I believe we are not at all far apart!

Let’s please keep the actual licensing discussion in Clarify RegistryCI license-check API for REUSE/SPDX-compliant packages · Issue #155557 · JuliaRegistries/General · GitHub

Thanks for the apology. I do think it’s very telling that your one sentence that describes that post was more helpful in getting us to understand eachother than the paragraphs of expansion (AI or not). Your written English, even sans AI edits, really is quite good!

Thank you! Damn, now I probably do need to attend JuliaCon this year in Germany so we can drink that beer together (or water!). :wink:

On the original topic: As a native German speaker (greetings to Kiel from someone coming from Lübeck!) I do not mind someone with “not-the-best english” as long as one can understand what is said. But I especially prefer bad or a bit rough English to (longish) AI slop.
Sure bad English can lead to misunderstandings, that should not keep us from being welcoming.

I also agree with Matt that your English Guido is well-understandable (I did not read the long GitHub issue though, since there was an AI warning here already).

As a non-native English speaker, I agree with this. A complex open source project with international developers like the Linux kernel is a perfect example of things having worked well without AI. I would rather deal with someone’s imperfect English than AI generated stuff. (And I say that as someone who uses AI code plugins constantly in various (non vibe coding) manners).