On at 2026-05-25 09:05:04 -0500, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 8:16 AM Ben Collver wrote: >> >> Just FYI, FreeDOS is already on the Open Slopware list [1] for two >> merges of AI generated code into COUNTRY.SYS [3] [4]. >> >> -Ben >> >> [1] >> https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware >> >> [2] >> https://github.com/FDOS/country/pull/16 >> >> [3] >> https://github.com/FDOS/country/pull/18 >> > > >Yes, I know about those. And as I explained to the person who asked >about it, these aren't showing code written by AI. It's using Copilot >to analyze. > > >#16 shows Copilot writing a pull request overview. See here: >https://github.com/FDOS/country/pull/16#pullrequestreview-3738866735 > >..and here: >https://github.com/FDOS/country/pull/16#pullrequestreview-3748854780 > >#18 shows that Copilot "wasn't able to review any files in this pull request." > > >So in both cases, the code was still written by a human, but Copilot >assisted in a review. > >I disagree with their assertion that using Copilot to generate >comments on a pull request "makes [AI] slop acceptance more probable >and maintainability more difficult."
I would also argue that, even if there were contributions to it, country.sys doesn't contain any code actually, it's to my knowledge purely a data file. The new DR-DOS v9 (which is proprietary and closed source) is likewise reported to use generative AI only for documentation and tests, not for generating program code. I do think that makes a notable difference. Regards, ecm _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
