On Mon, 25 May 2026, perditionc--- via Freedos-devel wrote:
From my background, both my undergraduate and graduate work involved
"ai" specifically artificial neural networks, so modern LLMs are a
curiosity for me and I enjoy playing with them to see what they can do.
So far I have no confidence in their programming abilities beyond
advanced template implementations and good fuzzy search and replace
tools. But they are improving and can aid in researching (pointers to
references and summarization, not the information itself which is too
often synthesized [made up]).
From my reading that site's classification simply means someone who is
not opposed to using ai tools where they make sense and not the as
implied by using the word slop, meaning of publishing ai generated
garbage, so a totally useless classification. It's like saying I don't
like software that uses a linter or automatic formatting tool so I'm
putting them on my naughty list. I agree people shouldn't use tools and
their output without understanding, but just like any tool, its the
person using it not the tool that one should be concerned with.
Anyway, no actual code has been ai written, and even if permissible, I
wouldn't publish code I didn't largely write, rewrite, review, and
understand.
I myself use AI mainly for black-box reverse engineering. Does mean it
generates code and often I only have a basic idea how it works. It also
means, by the nature of the bots I'm using, they're constantly asking my
permission for everything and I'm very much directing them. So it's less
asking a vague question and getting some chunk of slop, and more like
using a really, REALLY fancy compiler compiler.
You're not going to see this in the FreeDOS project, because that would
not be appropriate of me, but it's doing pretty good work with creating
new tooling so I can keep building and improving MS-DOS 4.
-uso.
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