Post #2459945

Nearly six weeks later, and the question of whether "AI" generated code in tmux -- not tool-assisted bug finding, not refactoring, actual LLM-generated slop with questionable license(1) -- that was consequently merged into OpenBSD base, is considered acceptable by the lead devs, remains unanswered. Despite Theo de Raadt's concrete stance against any code of questionable license origin polluting the project -- and the tmux merge was indeed questionable -- it seems this is being swept under the rug. This makes me extremely uncomfortable; it's like seeing a fox in the henhouse but the farmers are all looking the other way and no one can convince them to admit they can see it and root it out. I really don't know what to do being just a user; I feel like even if I tried to chime in on the mailing list I would just be ignored like the others trying to raise the alarm. I hope, as they do, that this is being discussed internally, away from the public list, and that a positive outcome is near. Maybe they are waiting for the 7.9 release before setting anything in stone. Or maybe the "AI" disease has infected one of the last pure operating system projects we have left and there's no going back. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177513420401322&w=2 (1) As in, it could have been lifted from any GPL'd or otherwise encumbered code and there's no way to know for sure since LLMs are perfect plagiarism machines #OpenBSD #vibecoding #NOAI #stoptheslop