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[–] BalkanSignal@europe.pub 9 points 1 hour ago

I can’t see how this can go wrong.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

let them. Seriously, let them do it.

And when the day comes, and it will, when something is submitted and approved and breaks shit then people can turn to the devs and Linus and say "I told you so."

my decision a few months ago to start daily driving BSD doesn't seem to be a bad one.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 13 minutes ago

Given Torvalds' attitude towards AI, it's not surprising.

"They've gotten good enough to find bugs because LLMs, AI, are just pattern matchers and code is nothing but patterns in a specific format."

True, but let's not forget that 2 + 2 = 4 can be achieved through a million different patterns^[(((((64 / 2) / 2) / 2) / 2) / 2) + (((((64 / 2) / 2) / 2) / 2) / 2) is a valid pattern for 2 + 2, for instance], so just because AI can find a working pattern doesn't make it good

Linus comparing AI to text editors and fucking compilers shows how high on his own farts he is. Given the same input, a compiler will always produce the same output, down to the last bit. The same cannot be said about AI - throw the same version of claude code with the same prompt on the same computer file and it will produce different results, maybe with a "similar enough" end result, but not identical.

AI is not a tool, it's a million monkeys with keyboards that cannot be held accountable for their output.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 28 minutes ago

This is a bad idea. Now we don’t know who actually wrote the code, and therefore who owns (or doesn’t own) the copyrights. This is really, exceptionally stupid.

[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 3 points 49 minutes ago

AAAARGH!!! I JUST FINISHED HARDENING MY MAIN LINUX BOX! I LIKE BSD BUT DID I JUST PUT ALL THAT EFFORT IN FOR NOTHING‽‽‽

[–] pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Because they’re all using it.