Parade du Grotesque 💀

I heard* that the next Red Hat will have 'AI Command Line Assistance' (whatever that is) and, F* that S* I am out.

Seriously, I am out. Red Hat and ANY OTHER Linux distro that tries that stunt can effing go to hell. I was going to post something funny here, but this is last nail in the coffin of a once great open source company.

Either you are selling a bash-completion++ package or you are polluting an OS with an LLM. Either way, not a good look.

(* h/t to Slashdot: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/05/20/203252/rhel-102-released-with-new-ai-command-line-assistance)

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance - Slashdot

Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an ...

May 20 at 10:12pmWeb
Show threadRooneyMcNibNug6d ago
@ParadeGrotesque as soon as they were acquired by IBM I knew it was all over.
Show threadRobo6d ago
@ParadeGrotesque I don't think there are any true open source companies left. I still miss Sun Microsystems.
Show threadfedops 💙💛6d ago

@rtw weeeeeell I remember the bitching about them charging for the compiler package and being pretty anal about it until Gnu kicked off and everybody downloaded gcc instead of their cc.

But yeah, IBM and Oracle and everybody else are just a different animal altogether.
@ParadeGrotesque

Show threadjack6d ago

@ParadeGrotesque Lightspeed Command Line Assistant has been there (optionally) from #RHEL 10.0 on. And I think they're even backporting some of that shit to RHEL 9.

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux-10

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Show threadTodd Knarr6d ago
@ParadeGrotesque Whoever thought this was a good idea should be invited to go get a sloppy blow-job from a Horta.
Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀6d ago

@tknarr

I don't like the mental image, but I like the way you think!