Re: [RFC] Introducing AI Agents to Git Localization

From: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date: Feb 4, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Message-ID: <aYNC5dlL8wdwdFuy@kitsune.suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <534b9313b19a73bcee6e0ac1d7299e19@softwolves.pp.se>

On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 12:58:05PM +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:

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> 2026-02-04 10:31 skrev Jiang Xin:
> 
> > Please try using AI coding tools to update translations in po/XX.po or
> > review historical translations, following the prompts below:
> 
> No.
> 
> Please disable this altogether for the Swedish localization. "Translation"
> using stochastic parrots is not mature and just creates gibberish that takes
> more time to clean up than to do the translation from scratch manually.

Hello,

a similar attempt was widely reported, eg. here: https://linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-forces-end-of-mozilla-japanese-sumo-community/

As pointed out the availiability of the tools is not necessarily a problem in itself. The problem in that particular case was that Mozilla automatically applied the tools to existing translations, even well-maintained ones.

Abandoned or completely missing translations may benefit from AI translation when the topic is general enough that there is likely a lot of training data available. Unfortunately, git with its specific jargon may not be the most optimal project for automated translation.

When the generated change needs to be sent to a maintainer for review having gibberish translation would be theoretically avoided. There is the caveat that maintainers might receive more gibberish submissions when the tools are available.

Thanks

Michal