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manofmanysmiles • yesterday at 10:04 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I imagine some of the maintainers of distributions are uncomfortable with the amount of LLM-generated code.

I also imagine they will be left behind, for better or for worse as AI-authored software and hardware will satisfy people's needs faster than that developed by humans.

I don't see a way to merge these rapidly moving frontiers of software without radically different distributed software development and distribution networks where AIs collaborate on a global scale. Perhaps the only way to keep playing is to grow a "super cortex", a projection of ourselves into the digital. Like today's agents, but improved, grounded by our knowledge and understanding.

This smells a bit like Skynet. Also, Software Heaven.

I'm not sure how I feel.


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mrkstu • yesterday at 11:10 PM

Linus is full steam ahead on AI, so one way or another those distros will be running AI code unless they want to fork the kernel.

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bitwize • today at 12:57 AM

> I imagine some of the maintainers of distributions are uncomfortable with the amount of LLM-generated code.

Then those distributions will fail.

It's 2026. Any open source project with an anti-AI stance will get its milkshake drunk by a fork that embraces AI. How can people still not see this?

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