Gentoo chose to ban LLMs two years ago. They seem to be doing well.

Funny because out of all the distros, Gentoo benefits from LLM usage, at least as a power user. I have fixed many-an-issues just having LLMs write patches in a way that portage automatically builds them, or rapidly put together ebuilds. I respect upstream decision though and don't share my changes (and realistically who would want them)

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isatty 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This tracks with what I do too (also a gentoo power user). My personal overlay is much healthier thanks to LLMs, but I don’t use it for writing code for personal use. It’s just not fun.

	▲	hparadiz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		6 months ago I would not have considered Gentoo for my work laptop but LLMs have unlocked my ability to do so. Wrestling with Linux is no longer constantly Googling with no end in sight. My work setup right now is _perfect_. I can't emphasis enough. I even built a gui for the VPN where non existed before.

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gentoo is doing as well as it’s always done. It’s clearly a very niche distribution. I say this as someone that used Gentoo for years.

They are free to keep pretending that they aren’t receiving covert AI contributions, because I’d bet the farm that they are.

Debian has a little more ‘general interest’

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preg_match 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes for gentoo and their users it makes sense. Debian is much, much larger and is used pretty extensively in enterprises.

The biggest question, I think, is: does a complete LLM ban interfere with, or slow down, security patches? I think it could, as LLMs are used a lot for vulnerability discovery.

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hparadiz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been running Gentoo for 20 years. What you consider "Gentoo" is simply the package manager and "ebuilds"; instructions to build upstream packages. Right now I'm using LLMs to make my own ebuilds and maintain them. The packages I am compiling are basically vanilla upstream Linux packages. It is laughable to suggest Gentoo doesn't use AI made code because upstream already has it.

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ekianjo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You would not even know about it if they were not doing well