Re: Ferrumc

> On 3/25/26 7:22 AM, Janne Johansson wrote:
> >>> - Homepage: https://ferrum-language.github.io/Ferrum/
> >>
> >> That website already lists ferrum as existing in OpenBSD ports, but
> >> that doesn't seem true. Did not find anything on the other BSDs
> >> either, although that website claims to have ports in net, free, open
> >> and dragonfly. Also doesn't exist in homebrew for macos.
> > ..and the domain for which to download RHEL,DEB certs and so on are
> > also missing.
> >
> >> Is this a sad AI joke?
> > The answer is yes.
>
> If the submitter is indeed 11 years old as indicated by the github repository:
> No, it isn't. Come on.

It is a sad joke for ALL the listed operating systems for which it was
listed as already packaged and working.

Contrary to what it might appear as, I do not care at all about the
age of the submitter. 11 years would be totally fine, if one could get
a decent answer on "did you even test this port?" and getting any
other reply on the initial detail questions than "I ran out of claude
tokens".

I am well aware of how close to the middle of the IQ bell curve I
ended up, so I'm sure there are 11-yo savants who, compared to me, can
perform miracles in terms of programming and math, it's just not
visible in this kind of submission.

I would not like for openbsd to even consider to import a submission
like this based on someone using a free email to get a GH account,
fork a million dollar project like LLVM with a click of a button, add
claude to the project, and make a website hallucinated by AI until the
free tokens ran out and then post submissions to all OS ports lists
without even having tested it on them. Not even close. Which is why I
took a look at it, and found it severely wanting.

These kinds of "no-cost" efforts are exactly why Curl had to stop
their bug bounty, since the cost and effort from submitters was close
to zero, and the cost for detecting the wrongness of each and every
one of them is very much non-zero. That is the "sad joke" part of it,
that we now live in a world where zero-effort submissions can drown
decent projects in slop. Doesn't mean AI can't find bugs in curl,
doesn't mean all submissions are useless, just means that when the AI
slop becomes the majority, or even 70-80-90% of all submissions, then
the whole idea of "anyone can help" breaks down.

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