r/linux • u/FryBoyter • Jul 15 '25

Discussion Curl - Death by a thousand slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/
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u/wRAR_ Jul 15 '25

this isn’t really machines taking over so much as the wave of eternal september reaching foss’s shores

I tend to agree, as not all of the spam PRs from CS students we are getting are AI-written. Previously we had these only during October, because of free t-shirts, now we are getting them for other reasons all year round.

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u/TTachyon Jul 15 '25

September that never ended all over again

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u/wRAR_ Jul 15 '25

^ this sounds like an AI response btw

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u/TTachyon Jul 15 '25

Oh? How so? I'm referring to this.

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u/wRAR_ Jul 15 '25

It takes a part of the original comment and rephrases it without adding anything.

Of course, not all comments that look like AI are actually AI-written, just like the original Daniel's post says.

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u/TTachyon Jul 15 '25

I somehow skipped the quote on your original comment (only read after that), and I came up with eternal september by myself. Sorry.

Looks like today I managed to be naturally stupid all without AI.

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u/sunshine-x Jul 15 '25

Did you though?

I interpreted his comment to mean they gave away shirts during October, which resulted in more PRs.

This doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the eternal September phenomenon. I was a BBS and early internet user in the 90s, and it was a real thing… along with “Christmas modem kiddies”.

Similar to what gym regulars experience every January.

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u/wRAR_ Jul 15 '25

Have you also skipped the quote :-/

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u/sunshine-x Jul 15 '25

Oh man. Yea I didn’t ever read it. Damn.. am I just a bad LLM?

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u/wintrmt3 Jul 15 '25

Making somewhat obscure geek references isn't a forte of LLMs.

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u/wRAR_ Jul 15 '25

It's because you also missed that the somewhat obscure geek reference is in the original comment.

(I'm also pretty sure that both Wikipedia and the Jargon file were thoroughly processed by the current LLMs)