On 2026-03-27 09:34 UTC, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> Here is a working port in the format which we normally use for sending
> new ports. However, I don't believe it should be included in ports at
> this time. As far as I know llm-generated code is not copyrightable,
> copyright law is the mechanism used by most open-source licenses to
> permit redistribution, so I think it's unlikely we actually have rights
> to do that. While we do have some ports for not-distributable things we
> wouldn't normally want them.
>
> I didn't look closely at most of the code but one thing that caught my
> eye, pid is not safe for tempfile name generation, another user of the
> system can easily generate files that conflict with this. Functions like
> mktemp and mkstemp are there for a reason. Some of the other "safety"
> checks make no sense. If the LLM code generator is coming up with things
> which any competent unix sysadmin (let alone programmer) can tell are
> obviously wrong, it doesn't bode well for the rest.
>
> Especially at a young age when your brain is developing I caution
> against heavy use of LLM. We simply do not know what effects it has
> and there are valid concerns about psychology and mental health.
> Do not let it keep you from interaction with humans.
Thank you, Stuart, for being awesome.
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