Comment by denysvitali
10 days ago
This.
Why would you waste 2 years to port Linux to an old / a device when you can literally do it in ~10 days and save many devices from turning into e-waste?
I really don't get their approach. Besides, Linux (and Linus) accepts and are doing AI contributions, so their argument makes no sense (since they're a Linux distro)
Correction:
Linux accepts AI assisted contribution. A human still has to review the output before submitting the code.
This is a big difference as it prevents raw genAI code to be part of the codebase.
pmOS might accept this in the future, as it is slowly becoming the standard.
I would also add on top of those points that nobody will ever get paid for mainlining old phones, these are side projects by nature, meaning, not full time.
And since it's such a hard task without AI (and it's still not easy even with it), almost none will ever be mainlined just because of the size of the task
Ever? Nobody?
>I really don't get their approach. Besides, Linux (and Linus) accepts and are doing AI contributions, so their argument makes no sense (since they're a Linux distro)
Sometimes the base has to fight the insanity coming from the top down.
You're only looking at the happy path here.
The output is only ever as good as the prompt.
There is a lot of people who don't know how to prompt well, don't understand the underlying task at hand and will just ask Claude a single line question without any reviewing of said output.
The Shopify CEO calls this a "Slop grenade".
That being said, I hope that postmarketos can move away from a flat out "No Gen AI" stance. Maybe the PR should include the prompts used, perhaps?
I hope this doesn't just result in a forked project.