North End feast society commits to staying away from AI
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/north-end-feast-society-commits-staying-away-ai

#Boston #StopTheSlop

I have spent my career making deterministic software. I have invested blood, sweat, and tears to handle things that make my software less than deterministic. Why in Dog's name would I want probabilistic software? I want things that consistently behave they way they are intended too. I want software that gives me the same output based on the input I give it. Anything less than that is a waste of my time and energy.

#NoAI #StopTheSlop

Today is a good day to remind the people around us that the slop machine marketing is a lie. This isn't about making anyone smarter, more creative, more efficient, or anything else they claim their technology does.

This is about making each and every aspect of our lives dependent on their technology. This is about locking us in and forcing us to pay them to do what we once were perfectly capable of doing without them!
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence [sic!] #LLMs #StopTheSlop #Slopposition

Nearly six weeks later, and the question of whether "AI" generated code in tmux -- not tool-assisted bug finding, not refactoring, actual LLM-generated slop with questionable license(1) -- that was consequently merged into OpenBSD base, is considered acceptable by the lead devs, remains unanswered. Despite Theo de Raadt's concrete stance against any code of questionable license origin polluting the project -- and the tmux merge was indeed questionable -- it seems this is being swept under the rug. This makes me extremely uncomfortable; it's like seeing a fox in the henhouse but the farmers are all looking the other way and no one can convince them to admit they can see it and root it out.

I really don't know what to do being just a user; I feel like even if I tried to chime in on the mailing list I would just be ignored like the others trying to raise the alarm. I hope, as they do, that this is being discussed internally, away from the public list, and that a positive outcome is near. Maybe they are waiting for the 7.9 release before setting anything in stone.

Or maybe the "AI" disease has infected one of the last pure operating system projects we have left and there's no going back.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177513420401322&w=2

(1) As in, it could have been lifted from any GPL'd or otherwise encumbered code and there's no way to know for sure since LLMs are perfect plagiarism machines

#OpenBSD #vibecoding #NOAI #stoptheslop

Slop-Zombie: "You're not using any AI [sic!] at all? But how do you manage to get stuff done?"

Me: "I've been doing stuff for almost four decades now. Without any slop machine. So I'm confident that I'll get along without them for another few decades."

Slop-Zombie: 😳
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#LLMs #StopTheSlop #Slopposition