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Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid (www.theregister.com)
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An internal memo dispatched by senior execs at Red Hat suggests the software biz is starting to push AI tooling within its Global Engineering department. RHEL may be about to get some Windows 11-style "improvements."

It carries the heading "Engineering that's evolved and amplified for the AI era," and for any AI skeptics in the developer teams at Red Hat, the tone of the email may raise alarm bells. The times are changing, it states.

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[โ€“] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 7 points 1 hour ago

It then continues to largely repeat the same point, complete with explaining the same initialism again: "We are transitioning to an Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). AI will be the operating model we run on. This is not about 'speeding up old processes'; it is about a world-class, agent-first development model fundamentally increasing the volume and quality of what we ship."

We feel obliged to note that such repetition can be a sign of text that was generated by an LLM, leading us to suspect that the authors may have used such a tool. As we reported from the CentOS Connect conference last month, we sat behind a Red Hatter doing just that in a message to an email distribution list.

While "our commitment to open source and upstream is not changing," the execs admit that "product and project development processes may diverge initially as we focus on how we build and deliver our products." Red Hat will try to "influence community development processes such that our processes can converge over time." It is possible this means the company might attempt to get external development communities to adopt similar practices โ€“ and that the authors anticipate significant resistance and even pushback from some communities.

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