AI code review finds a lot more bugs (such as logic bugs). But yes linters can be used for that specific case

On commercial accounts, you can turn off training, and they have policies generally to avoid code leaks (another bad thing for open source, the free accounts you generally can’t, because you are the product).

True, but its still not enough to handle all slop. The number of maintainers have also grown though dramatically… Also, don’t forget that LLM’s can also be used to identify bugs in patches more quickly too… So, more are getting submitted, but, lots of bad patches are being rejected faster too, with less effort (that required human intervention in the past).

This might be true, but that is not a reason to accept or normalize slop. Define Slop…

The difference to before is, that nowadays its easier and faster to write (or generate) slop in mass that looks legit. Finding out its bad code or wrong can suck up huge amount of time of maintainers, which would have worked on something more productive instead. We’ve all spent hours doing that though on our own code. Again, the buck stops with maintainers. One thing that Maintainers are going to do though, is get them to prove the code first and test the code in other trees first, before even trying to push to main

There’s always been code that has been bad, like Linus never liked the Con Kalivas performance patches, or Reiser4.

It is also finding a lot of security issues and bugs faster too though

I’ve actually written optimisations for code that I thought would be faster, and turned out to be a waste of time in production

For you maybe, but there are issues using Ai regardless of how the code looks. Both sets of code need the same level of examination by humans anyway. In fact, in some cases, the AI code I’ve seen has been better than the code i wrote

I mean stuff like how the LLM was trained on in example, and if the licensing will become an issue one day. That is true, and I agree with that. That’s the one point that does stand out, but doesn’t have anything to do with the claim by certain people in the community about the Linux Kernel being overrun with bad code.

What I would like to see is a LLM that’s developed exclusively using Open source compatibility licences with FULL traceability to sources uses, and a way to specify licencing allowed (or something similar).

There is one issue with AI that you didn’t mention however. The biggest problem with AI is that it adversely benefits closed source companies via Open source code. Because closed source code isn’t easily accessed by the AI for training, but Open source is. The other issue is that hackers won’t avoid LLM’s based on the ethical issues, so, unfortunately, it forces developers to use them to keep up with the cat and mouse game.

As a developer, am I happy about AI? For code review yes, but, it makes my job suck and not fun. And no, I’m not happy about the ethics… There are a lot of things that sh** me, like AI companies SHOULD be forced to pay royalties to everyone they stole info from.

However, what sucks, is that we can’t pretend it’s not a thing, and if Linux wants to remain competitive, it does need to use it.

The best thing we can do though, is petition to tax AI companies and pay producers of the information. That would make AI unprofitable immediately and kill the industry

He wants to start bombing civilians basically. Since that will be who is most affected. Using large bombs isn’t a surgical strike

This is a schmozzle. Way too late

I hate to say it… I tried F-droid, but I simply found no apps I wanted were in it :(

No. He needs congressional approval. He won’t get it. Hence why he won’t make it better though. He’ll likely try to make it worse until they HAVE to go to war

Trump is a convicted felon

He has incentives not to retire because then he will be sentenced for tax fraud. I’m sure he’s considered the possibility of freezing elections because of being in a war…

Steam lepton is interesting.

It’s almost like steam is also possibly going after the play store eventually too. So, if they do that, and manufacturers change away, it’s a win

He probably takes his dementia medication every 3 weeks

My only issue with Ubuntu is that snap feels fairly clunky. That’s why I moved to fedora. Also, definitely worth looking at pop os. But, all of them come down to personal preference

I think these days, Linus Torvalds moved to fedora

I think most stations stopped playing him voluntarily ages ago

The maga one should look a lot more desperate

There is something nostalgic about Gnome 1/2. i do miss them

Yeah… When you mentioned, it makes sense now.

Actually, I was going to download this yesterday.

I need a good app to create gpx files for hiking…

So, ironically, part of the reason I sold my Xbox was that streaming from Xbox to windows didn’t even work properly.

I don’t see this as a bad thing for people who want it. Steam doesn’t offer something similar to game pass (I wish they did)

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I didn’t realize this was an international thing. We had them here in Australia too

I actually sat during lunch with 2 mountaineering record holders when I did my mountaineering training with two record holders who spoke about all the fuckups they had and how one spent the night in a biouvac in a crevasse once and how terrible it was

Just what a guy doing his first mountaineering training needed to hear… That and on the first day of training you’re dumped in the middle of nowhere and told that everyone will fall in a crevasse during the training