the BSDs in the AI Age

[Justin Sherrill]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 9:15 AM George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com>
wrote:

> I want to initiate a thread on the "BSDs and AI today."
>
> I'm looking to do a presentation on this in the summer for NYC*BUG.
>

Two quantifiable measures, though they will change by the time you are
doing a summer presentation:

- What models and software run on BSDs?  There's all sorts of tooling for
accessing LLMs, but how much have made it to BSD?

- How well do LLMs answer questions about BSD specific technology?  Or how
exact are they when answering questions that could also be for Linux
systems?  This one might be enraging, as in "check your systemd settings to
tune your ZFS pools..." or some such.


> * Should BSD projects have explicit LLM-focused policies?
>

LLM policies right now appear to be a stand-in for other problems.  For
example, LLM bug reports are high volume and low quality so far, but I
imagine if they get better, the objection would go away:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1065620/

There's probably also something that needs to be settled with copyright and
assignment with generated code, but I am out of my depth beyond feeling
like it's undefined.
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