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

[Ron]

Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote on 2026-03-19 13:29:
>> 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/

Brodie Robertson, Linux YouTuber, has a video about it, probably worth 
watching.

It's truly remarkable the ways in which Kent seems to be self-sabotaging 
his bcachefs file system, and this latest one is probably the fatal blow.

www.youtube.com

BCacheFS Developer Deployed His AI Girlfriend Helper <#>

By now you probably know about Kent Overstreet's antics in the Linux 
kernel with BcacheFS but we're not here to talk about that today, 
instead we're here to ...

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzDI3mCv58 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzDI3mCv58>

It took me a while to get used to Brodie's videos, but I watch / listen 
to them fairly frequently now to get news about Linux & FOSS events; 
often drama but it can affect important projects, so I'm okay with 
low-intensity watching.

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