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Is this site reliable? Because it finds 1 LLM-assisted commit in NetBSD src, but nothing in OpenBSD src (it is hard to forgot about their tmux story).
https://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub%2Ecom%2FNetBSD%2Fsrc
https://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub%2Ecom%2Fopenbsd%2Fsrc
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@bpl @rl_dane @jaypatelani @corvus @cmccullough I’d be interested to see what this tool thinks is LLM assisted, but the web page has nothing useful.
How do we see what this tool is trying to tell us? How do we see its criteria? Without information, this tool is kinda useless.
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Well, that's kind of damning: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/f3b327fa6f8b4ff6f758a8b9e8190aa20109e222
@netbsd ? 🥺
Re: tmux in OpenBSD, false positives are possible, because the tool is just looking at filenames and metadata, not actual file contents. If they're copying source code from a slop project, but not the metadata/commits, then it will give you a false negative.
Not as damning as one might think.
That's a commit to external/ where Christos Zoulas is importing into NetBSD's mirror all of the changes made to the original ISC BIND in version 9.20.24, en bloc. M. Zoulas didn't use the LLM, and the LLM-generated code is only one of a whole slew of changes made to the BIND source tree in that version.
The person who uses the LLMs is Michal Nowak who works for ISC in QA.
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/e13302a6bc9b196564b5e7afe703fae24311ceeb
#ISC has an explicitly pro-LLM stance on #BIND, and I wouldn't be surprised if #Kea and DHCP follow suit.
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/merge_requests/12363
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-code
There have been good reasons not to use ISC BIND for over a quarter of a century (monolithic software, runs with superuser privileges, multiple hats, lots of parsing). Alas, it is an expenditure of time and effort on the #NetBSD people's parts to switch to a non-LLM-generated DNS server software. But it is well past due.
It is In Progress.
What would be a decent slop-free DNS these days? I set up DNS for my domains 30 years ago using bind and then never thought much about it. Also using it as a recursive DNS for my home LAN. Maybe it's time to change.
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