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Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'd love to see a pre-AI fork of the Linux kernel.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

You can do it always

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think some of the BSDs have no AI clauses.

[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I ran it all through Slopscore and consulted open-slopware, and here are the results:

  • ⬛ Linux has at least 2,274 slop commits, to date.
  • 🟧 FreeBSD has at least 53 slop commits, including some from Anthropic themselves.
  • 🟨 OpenBSD has a couple of slop commits, but nothing colossal.
  • 🟩 NetBSD had one Claude commit, but apparently the code has been removed. It also requires any AI-generated code to be signed off by the core maintainers before it can be merged.
  • 🟨 DragonFly BSD has at least three slop commits.
  • 🟥 MidnightBSD has at least 292 slop commits.
  • ⬛ NextBSD is entirely vibecoded.
  • 🟩 MirBSD has an anti-AI policy, but only supports i386 and SPARC, and is currently unusable anyway.
  • 🟩 HyperbolaBSD has an anti-AI policy, but hasn't been released yet (they're still a Linux-libre distro).
  • 🟩 CoffeeBSD is a slop-free fork of FreeBSD, but has had no commits since it was forked.
[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess that settles it you'll never have a decent kernel without AI code.

[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk about that. Hyperbola's BSD kernel is looking good, and Haiku is coming along nicely.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Redox OS also has an Anti-AI policy, I believe.

[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

It does! Also, 9front and ironclad have anti-AI policies, and illumos is untainted (though does not mention anything about AI in its CoC).

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 6 points 1 week ago

Be the change you seek in the world.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Okay, that was always an option.