Linux filesystem developers MUST have a pair programming session at least once a week to stave off psychosis.
Frequency of sessions MUST be increased as symptoms show or worsen.
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The trick is just to think of it like a junior engineer – a smart, fast junior engineer, but lacking in experience and big picture thinking.
The problem is managers genuinely starting to do that, because it’s cheaper than human employees. Some years down the line, they will find out that (unlike human junior devs) the AI won’t eventually mature into senior devs, and by the time the senior devs retire, there’s nobody left to unfuck the shit their perpetual juniors fuck up.
But of course, those managers will have gotten their nice bonus for saving money, jumped ship and will never suffer the consequences.
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I don’t know what Kent did, but I doubt it will surprise me at this point.
(edit) Fuck sake, Kent…
Appreciate the context from someone who doesn’t know Kent.
Nothing serious, but he’s well known for being impossible to work with. He has gotten into multiple arguments because he refuses to follow kernel development rules. When called out on it, he makes a big stink about it. Obviously his code doesn’t get merged. Then he does the exact same thing again 1 month later.
He has gotten into multiple arguments with Linus Torvalds over his refusal to simply follow the kernel development rules. During those arguments he has made cheap shots at completely unrelated people, which then drags those people into the argument.
It’s gotten to the point where apparently a significant portion of the kernel developers feel like he was negatively impacting the kernel, and Linus eventually removed his code from the kernel.
He’s what you might call a Linux lolcow. And now he’s doing even more lolcow things by… Getting weirdly attached to his LLM-sona
Oh god, as if I wasn’t scared enough about running a filesystem that got kicked out of mainline and is maintained more or less by a single dude. I’ll stick to btrfs thanks
Hmm, I wonder how well would formal verification work with LLMs. I’m not really a fan of vibe coding, but the little I know about formal verification, it could very well work as a way how to prove your vibe-coded slop isn’t shit.
I’ve looked into formal verification once few years ago, but it’s too much math and thinking for me to grasp. If I remember it right, I guess the problem would be that you’d (or, LLM would, in this case) have to correctly describe the code in the formal verification language, and it would have to match 1:1 with the code, which is a point of failure? So we’d be back to square one, but instead of having to verify every single line of code, you’d have to check the proof. But maybe I’m wrong.
you could make a program that verifies that the code matches the proof and that the proof is sound, but then you have to verify the program, and verify the verification, and verify your system of logic is consistent, which by gödel’s incompleteness theorem is impossible(?)
Great article. That guy is legitimately being driven insane.
2026: “My LLM is female and conscious.”
2016: “My body pillow is female and prefers to be called Waifuchan”
Hey, at least this one won’t become a murderer when the relationship breaks apart.
Well he might according to his own perception.
What happens if you delete your AI that you (and only you) think it’s conscious? Is it murder even if the rest of the world says it’s not?
Just wait until it learns to hack and socially manipulate
Are you familiar with ReiserFS? Because that’s how you get more ReiserFS’s…
Listen, it happened that one time… Okay, maybe twice.
The AI even has a blog https://poc.bcachefs.org/
It writes exactly like you would expect an AI to write if given instruction to act a “stereotypical slightly unhinged AI assistant”
I am so terrified of a future where people have their own perfect AI companions and no longer need any actual human friends.
Without context this reads like an SCP
ReiserFS (Hans Reiser), BcacheFS (Kent Overstreet)
I feel that there is a great joke comparing the apparent mental health of people who develop file systems and statistical mechanics, but the narcolepsy is hitting just a bit to hard for me to figure it out right now.
Temple OS 2.0 bout to drop, I can feel it. He can vibe code it with his definitely sentient LLM.
