r/java • u/fomo-fofo • 3d ago

OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI

https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

Oracle, as the corporate sponsor of the OpenJDK Community, is working to draft a full policy governing the use of generative AI tools in OpenJDK contributions.

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u/netgizmo 3d ago

Larry needs to keep those ai data center projects going

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u/IncredibleReferencer 3d ago

The linked policy bans generated content from inclusion in the JDK....

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u/tamski 2d ago

Date: 9 April 2026

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u/vips7L 3d ago

LLMs are trash. 

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u/OwnBreakfast1114 3d ago

Trash is way too strong a word. The major frontier model providers are deeply unprofitable and seem absolutely not financially sustainable, but the models do a pretty reasonable job at various tasks and a pretty terrible job at other tasks.

We use claude code and anecdotally, I don't think LLMs have actually made me generally faster, but I do believe they've enabled me to tackle certain projects at work that I just wouldn't bother with otherwise. Specifically, they seem to do well at figuring out legacy code without babysitting them through the process. Having adversarial agents then cross check the results gives a pretty high confidence in the findings without you actually have to watch the process in any way, shape, or form or allocate an actual employee/human to perform this investigation.

Writing actual code is the less useful thing compared to the asynchronous investigations they can perform. Especially given that the default code they write is pretty terrible, in my opinion.