[kwlug-disc] On usage ... on simplistic usage of GenAI in Node project

[Paul Nijjar]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 01:40:09PM -0400, Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 11:29:44PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > 
> 

> Ignoring that it couldn't be designed as a replacement for Y and Z,
> because those are different technologies separated by 30 years in
> time. And that's saying nothing of the suggestion that it's
> "drop-in", when the project scope specifically includes major
> rewrites and a language change.

Brandolini's law strikes again! 


> Not sure if anybody has been following the bcachefs saga recently
> (being excised from the kernel, etc), but it's recently taken some
> very strange AI-related turns, where AI-generated code is the least
> weird part of the story.

@grok is this true? Please provide additional context because I am too
dumb to do a web search and have only found articles like this: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/

- Paul