Mastodawn

There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:
https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg102518.html

[gentoo-dev] Dealing with (potential) slop packages

Show thread

Sebastian Schinzel

@hanno Also Vim-User können ja einfach zu Emacs rüberwechseln, da erwarte ich kein Problem.

Und da der LInux-Kernel auch LLM-Code hat, sollte Gentoo endlich auf GNU Hurd wechseln.

Man kann ja von Stallman halten, was man will. Aber LLMs hat er wenigstens noch nicht verwendet. /s