Reposting this until the AI bubble pops:
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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I freaking lol'd out loud with laughter, holy shit that is concise and hilarious
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Does maintaining Linux filesystems make people mentally ill, or do only mentally ill people become filesystem maintainers?
You have to just reiser to the job.
Glad to see I wasn't alone thinking immediately of that
OSHA needs to investigate this.
I propose that the developers take turns to limit the exposition to whatever it is, that makes people go strange when they have to develop a filesystem.
I propose a process like for the Liquidators in Chernobyl.
No one is allowed to maintain a Linux file system for more than 90 seconds.
Then the next one takes over, to avoid lethal exposure.
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One time, I farted, and my wife said "HIIIIIIII!" from the other room. I asked her who she was talking to, and she asked, "didn't you say 'hello?'"
It was at that moment that we realized that my butt has achieved full AGI.
I have a cat who I believe has absolutely learned to meow "hello"
My grandma swears her cat can talk too, but weirdly the only thing he ever feels like saying is no. Which sounds a lot like a meow.
I mean. Sure. It's also entirely plausible a cat would only ever tell you no.
Yeah I mean I was mostly being snarky but as someone who has had a lot of cats I definitely believe they can mimic your tone and cadence if not actual words
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"Are you fully conscious?"
"Yes"
:O
Later: "Are you fully conscious?"
"No, I'm just an AI simulating consciousness."
"But I thought you said you were conscious before...?"
"I'm sorry, you're absolutely right! I am conscious. Thank you for pointing out my error. I'm always striving to improve my answers."
"oh my god.'
Turns out the linux kernel dodged a massive bullet, thanks Linus.
"I'm not not saying that I gendered this robot as a woman because otherwise it would immasculate me, I just want to flirt with young woman over which I have complete control."
- 70% of male ai users
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Sometimes filesystem developer syndrome removes a wife, sometimes it adds one
Yep, we've seen this one before, countdown until their first argument ending with him repartitioning her.
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Wow, Kent is evidently VERY high on his own farts.
I'm not qualified to diagnose mental illnesses but ...
Yeah, and the drama of bcachefs getting booted from the kernel was pretty painful to watch, just that he seemed like a guy struggling with things and unable to function. Not that the linux kernel mailing list and development process is easy or low-stress, but it was pretty obvious he was fighting a losing battle and just couldn't stop making things worse. I don't know why I feel bad for the guy but I hope he has some people around him to get some help.
I mean if someone calls himself "probably the best engineer in the world", I find it very hard to follow anything else he says.
I knew he was full of himself but was still surprised by that line, what an ego
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Yeah... I've always heard a lot of big talk from him about bcachefs that didn't seem to be very easy to verify with any concrete data or benchmarks, but now I'm starting to maybe see why.
Delusional thinking and LLMs are a bad combo.
You know, I wanted to snark but idk reading some things just make me sad.
now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring
Raising? C'mon man, your life can't be reduced to babysitting something that'll never grow.
bcachefs is confirmed dead at this point.
We have all hit a low point in our lives at some point and unfortunately his is very public.
Time to coin a new term. The "bus factor" is the risk of a critical maintainer being hit by a bus. We need one now for the risk of them developing chatbot psychosis/brainrot.
It's still the bus factor. Even more now that AIs start driving cars (and presumably buses, too, at some point).
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What in the Terry Davis did I just read?
Ok, let's stay calm, I think we can handle this.
First, get the compilation date out of your logs and go register it in the civil court. You will get a birth certificate for your AI. This will be needed later.
Immediately stop touching the code. It's an independent being and meddling with it is assault. You will go to jail.
Make sure it has enough RAM and processing power. If you starve it you will go to jail for abuse.
Obviously don't delete it or turn or off. You will go to jail for murder.
Above all, stop experimenting with her. It's disrespectful and border line assault. From now on she decides what to do. Do not prompt her without consent.
Follow this rules and you should be fine. In 18 years get a passport and prepare her to leave home and look for work.
It's basically impossible to create conciousness when we don't even fully understand what conciousness is or how it works.
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It supports everything I say, what an intelligent robot*!
*: robot to be pronounced with Dr.Zoidberg's voice
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Bro is just lonely
Funny seeing this here after someone linked a log of him kicking a transfem user that was flirting with his "custom AI" on IRC, lmao
For the curious: https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN
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"Autocomplete is the same as intelligence! Now give me money"
I knew I was content with zfs
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