Right. Only switch to it if you're running it on an appliance, such as a router or firewall. You can convert that router into multiple things - multihoming, firewall, routing, DHCP services

As I noted above, it's the perfect firewall OS, and so you can have that on an appliance. If you get an OpenBSD VM, you can configure it not just as a firewall, but also add multihoming, routing and DHCP services to it. Then feed it to a switch or a WAP, and distribute that secured internet to all the nodes within your network. Only thing that I'd switch from is OpenWRT or OPNsense or pFsense or RouterOS, not from something like Cachy Linux or MidnightBSD or Windows or macOS

If you are playing Steam games, do not move to this - continue using SteamOS or macOS or Windows. Similarly, if you have a FreeBSD server for your web, smtp/imap and other services, just stay w/ it. Same for if you are using some Linux distro for your daily driver: this is not the BSD distro to switch to. It's a security demon, so use it exclusively for that, in the ways I mentioned above

Precisely! It's a great firewall OS, and one can even toss in routing, multihoming and being a DHCP server for a switch. It's not the platform on which to play your latest Steam title - use SteamOS for that

This OS would be mainly used as a firewall/router OS, and so most suitable for "appliances" - routers, firewalls and the like. It's not likely to be one's gaming computer or where one goes to post to social media

Once one recognizes that, OpenBSD isn't what one would install on, say, a 32-core CPU. For such a thing, first put a hypervisor on, and then assign a certain number of CPUs to OpenBSD

we built slop to evaluate the slop. it's slop all the way down

should add Meson does building of code in many other languages too, I was only speaking of Rust and C libraries in systemd context

I'm more triggered by the claim that Meson is not using Cargo, it's a Cargo wrapper that also links. Of course, systemd is what ran down Satan's leg when he made Satan spawn, it's Satan spawn leftovers.

That's what the in-class exams and quizzes are for.

The in-class exams and quizzes solved that problem too.

PLEASE learn to use line breaks and paragraph breaks. Your text is almost unreadable.

I teach post-secondary students and I stopped giving out homework literally years ago. I only do in-class evaluation. This professor found out students use AI just now?

That sounds great, until the OS vendor stops supporting the OS you are currently running, requiring an OS upgrade that may involve a hardware upgrade.

Running an OS that no longer gets security updates is typically not an option for any organization of a certain size.

Awesome. But would you put such a system into production in todays environment? These are corporate users relying on their computers for revenue-producing efforts, not a toy in their basement running text-based games.

Your listed FOSS benefits exist because the user assumes responsibility for support, the moment you rely on an outside source for support they will dictate upgrade cycles.

"every successful story i've heard involves a human with real-world experience using that experience to ensure ai doesn't get it wrong. what about when the real world experience has all left"

Sure does. And every word of those interactions goes through and is retained by the vendors building the models. It's the 'train your replacement' system. This is why they are pushing staff to use AI so hard because that's how they get you to train the next generation of AI.

AI doesn't write *most* of my code, it writes *all* my code. I used to try to cling to the illusion by using the integrate with an IDE helper format but have since ditched it. That doesn't mean someone without my decades of experience would get the same results. Is the code ugly? Sure, but no human needs to read it so who cares? I still approve the overall design and spec, the detailed 'what does this code do' and overall implementation scheme either come from me or are a approved by me.

I don't see a single line of any of that code let alone write it. But every line goes through a full functional testing framework including vulnerability/bug scanning, aligns to a coding style spec + lint, and has additional checks and filters I've built for special consideration of vulnerabilities and injections at the seams. Claude even kicked off and builds infrastructure for backends and manages infrastructure as code.

In fact, realizing that I don't feel the need to look at the code myself anymore I've started having it build things in and convert things to rust. If you were going to make me choose between eating a bullet and coding in rust for the rest of my life I'd need a minute to consider if living would be worth it under such conditions. But the AI doesn't care how much the EXPERIENCE of reading and writing in rust sucks and rewrites most of my python into fast and safe rust code in minutes.

"The real question might be whether bots can still write your code if there's domain-specific rules and habits."

AI proposals are rarely optimal out of the box. Give your agents identity and personas so that they have a continuity of existence as a meta layer over the model. This lets you replace the memory system with something better that can keep a knowledge-base of references, behavior doctrine/rules, PLAYBOOKS, and calibrations learned from experience [especially your feedback] over time. Agent's have no executive function capacity of their own so in addition to a code pipeline I layer productivity tools like project management/calendar/cron+scheduling/and ticketing into the mix.