NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS

NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS(theregister.com)

20 points by pjmlp 4 hours ago | 5 comments

creatonez 3 hours ago |

Haiku OS is similarly hard-line about this, and is also starting from the point of an extremely clean codebase.

Neat stuff, though I can't say AI policy is the biggest priority when I choose projects to use, plenty of projects are using it in a measured and sane way without needing a complete prohibition.

lproven 58 minutes ago | |

> I can't say AI policy is the biggest priority when I choose projects to use

I wouldn't expect it to be on HN. This place is a den of AI iniquity.

But for a lot of people out there, slop-free software is an increasingly rare and desirable thing.

lproven 59 minutes ago |

Oh, cool, thanks for sharing this -- it's one of mine.

snvzz 1 hour ago |

Every project is AI free, until it's not.

NetBSD will soon realize there's very limited value, to put it nicely, in shipping code full of bugs that an LLM would quickly find.

Either that, or a fork that anybody sensible within NetBSD will embrace.

diegocg 4 hours ago |

This is a project that insists on using CVS so yeah, it's not surprising that they do not try the most modern development techniques