Your repo is a preference dataset: extracting taste from merge history

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• A British AI researcher has developed a method to extract “preferences” from the history of code merges in a repository, suggesting that teams often make decisions based on which changes are adopted over time.
• The technique, called Implicit Preference Distillation, aims to align artificial intelligence with institutional practices by analyzing how software projects evolve through iterative improvements. This allows for the extraction and use of these preferences without requiring explicit feedback from experts.

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