On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 9:15 AM George Rosamond <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to initiate a thread on the "BSDs and AI today." > > I'm looking to do a presentation on this in the summer for NYC*BUG. > Two quantifiable measures, though they will change by the time you are doing a summer presentation: - What models and software run on BSDs? There's all sorts of tooling for accessing LLMs, but how much have made it to BSD? - How well do LLMs answer questions about BSD specific technology? Or how exact are they when answering questions that could also be for Linux systems? This one might be enraging, as in "check your systemd settings to tune your ZFS pools..." or some such. > * Should BSD projects have explicit LLM-focused policies? > LLM policies right now appear to be a stand-in for other problems. For example, LLM bug reports are high volume and low quality so far, but I imagine if they get better, the objection would go away: https://lwn.net/Articles/1065620/ There's probably also something that needs to be settled with copyright and assignment with generated code, but I am out of my depth beyond feeling like it's undefined.
