> We don't want or need hundreds of LLM generated Unix-clones which are merely slight variations on the Linux source code.

Good news, you don't have to use them. People want to build them, to learn, to explore, to feel good.

I'd argue that that's not even a good thing any more. It's borderline just drug use, and at the cost of huge amounts of energy.

Because at some point if (big if) this trajectory keeps up the end goal is for all software to be fully democratized and created on demand. Operating system included.

That's what people said about forks in open source: "we do not want them".

Apparently there's someone who wants them... The programmer who made it.

Funny how we're all for freedom and free expression, until we find someone not properly investing their time /s

> What's the use in that?

It makes a nice test case to work on techniques for building reliable software with AI.

> We don't want or need hundreds of LLM generated Unix-clones

Actually, I do want that. Having a monoculture where one vulnerability affects all computers seems problematic to me. Even if each clone is less secure, hacking into one doesn't cause the rest of the world to panic. It changes the economics for a black hat.