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Title: FreeBSD Project Isn't Ready To Let AI Commit Code Just Yet

Link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/0...

The latest status report from the FreeBSD Project says no thanks to code
generated by LLM-based assistants. From a report: The FreeBSD Project's
Status Report for the second quarter of 2025 contains updates from various
sub-teams that are working on improving the FreeBSD OS, including separate
sub-projects such as enabling FreeBSD apps to run on Linux, Chinese
translation efforts, support for Solaris-style Extended Attributes, and for
Apple's legacy HFS+ file system. The thing that stood out to us, though, was
that the core team is working on what it terms a "Policy on generative AI
created code and documentation." The relevant paragraph says: "Core is
investigating setting up a policy for LLM/AI usage (including but not limited
to generating code). The result will be added to the Contributors Guide in
the doc repository. AI can be useful for translations (which seems faster
than doing the work manually), explaining long/obscure documents, tracking
down bugs, or helping to understand large code bases. We currently tend to
not use it to generate code because of license concerns. The discussion
continues at the core session at BSDCan 2025 developer summit, and core is
still collecting feedback and working on the policy."

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