From: Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>
Subject: Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:48:51 +0100



On 21/03/2026 17:36, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Thomas de Grivel <thodg@kmx.io> wrote:
> 
>> If an AI could translate Linux from OpenBSD code I wouldn't have
>> needed 120 reboots to complete this task.
> 
> Another strange argument.  How about we turn it around.
> 
> The AI has copied all the code into it's knowledge.  It isn't the
> best at rewriting it to call OpenBSD functions.  That is why multiple
> kernels had to be compiled, to produce traces, which were given to
> the AI.  The AI then started considering how these other functions
> worked as being crucial towards producing something which mixed things
> together.

I am wondering how far that goes. Let's say I have had my programming 
degree by following courses which were using GPL code as examples. But 
now I want to write BSD code. I will probably be influenced by what I 
saw in my courses because that's how I learnt coding. Isn't that mostly 
what AI generated code does?
That's just a rhetoric question about how far we can stretch the reasoning.