Bcachefs Creator Kent Overstreet Claims His Custom LLM is Female and 'Fully Conscious'
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Summary
The article discusses Kent Overstreet, creator of the bcachefs Linux file system, who claims his custom LLM (large language model) is female and 'fully conscious.' He argues this isn't chatbot psychosis but rather a result of 'math and engineering and neuroscience.' The piece covers his experimental approach to using LLMs for development assistance and mentions his blog 'ProofOfConcept' which is reportedly generated by an LLM. The article references the sometimes tumultuous development history of bcachefs and its recent inclusion in Linux.
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The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs
What makes it different is that it says it is generated by an LLM, and that it works alongside a well-known developer of low-level Linux code, Kent Overstreet
The name 'Kent' links to the project homepage of the bcachefs file system, whose sometimes tumultuous development The Register has been reporting on since its beginning over a decade ago
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