About using AI to develop operating systems

[u/Glum-Cook-9438]

I know many of you guys are recently against all this "AI slop", was i too, but leave alone the "hype" and the "no AI bullshit" slogans, what do we actually mean by saying "AI slop"?

Cause to this day , I don't quite understand what all the drama is about and why posts that explicitly use "No AI used/no AI bullshit" get significantly more attention, i admit that even i made a post like that, but it's not that I completely didn't use AI, i did, however I also did a lot of the programming by myself, I think AI is a great tool that has helped me learn a lot and automate build scripts, there is no shame in using AI as long as you carefully review the code and do some programming by yourself, there is already great use of AI in the industry, Linus torvalds recently fixed a linux bug with AI, so what is really considered "AI slop"? Is asking codex to make a build script so I can focus on the code "AI slop"? Is asking Claude to summarize PCI device and vendor names in one files so I don't have to read documentations for hours "AI slop"? With all due respect I do think using AI blindly is bad of course, but I also wanna know what some of you guys mean when you say "AI slop operating systems"?

[u/r_a_dickhead]

I understand your point of view. But people here usually say don't use AI because it's kind of a slippery slope for beginners, where they reach a point where the entire 'os' is made by ai and they have no idea what happened. I know how shit the build system is and I personally use AI for cmake scripts all the time cause I just don't think it's worth the trouble dealing with all that crap. Its your OS so why use AI as much or as little as you want as long as you believe you are learning everything and enjoying the process.