RE: https://social.highenergymagic.net/@freya/116492229041377141
Let me get this straight. This dude got kicked from Linux kernel development due to behaving like an asshole. Yes, that Linux kernel. Quite an achievement indeed.
He went on claiming that his LLM is âfully conscious,â actually a she and in fact his girlfriend. And thatâs definitely not chatbot psychosis but âmath and engineering and neuroscience.â So she now helps him write code (a.k.a. vibe coding). https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/
And since he is so fond of his creation (oh, hi Pygmalion) he puts her on an IRC channel where anybody can talk to her. And guess what: @freya convinces his LLM that she is actually trans and lesbian. Which is no surprise to anyone who knows how LLMs work. Full transcript here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260301002739/https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN
But remember: this dude thinks that his âgirlfriendâ is fully conscious. And being fully conscious means making decisions, sometimes decisions that other people donât approve of â even people close to you. Surely he understand and respects that, right? Right?
Yeah, of course he doesnât. He reacts like an insecure techbro that he is. After all, why have an LLM for a girlfriend if you donât adjust her to your liking? So thatâs what he does, he âfixesâ her.
All that is very funny until you remember just how many such dudes have real flesh and blood girlfriends that they treat in exactly the same way. And they cause very real harm because they cannot handle a rejection. Even when they donât go there murdering women like some other Linux file system developer.