Lastly, the VP of Engineering did clarify that they will be shipping code in Ubuntu that is co-authored by AI.
“Regarding whether or not we should ship code that was co-authored by an AI - in reality we will be doing this. Even foundational projects in the ecosystem like the Kernel itself now have policies around how to govern this, and will accept tasteful, correct contributions that have been authored with AI.”
Does that mean mint is going to be AI as well? I haven’t heard anything out of that project because I’m not paying attention, but it just seems inevitable.
I can’t speak for them, but they did start the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) project as a means to escape total reliance on Ubuntu and their unsavory decisions. It does seem inevitable that every distro will eventually have some amount of AI generated code, if they don’t already.
Burying the lede:
If the kernel accepts ai contributions…
Does that mean mint is going to be AI as well? I haven’t heard anything out of that project because I’m not paying attention, but it just seems inevitable.
I can’t speak for them, but they did start the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) project as a means to escape total reliance on Ubuntu and their unsavory decisions. It does seem inevitable that every distro will eventually have some amount of AI generated code, if they don’t already.
100% there is plenty of undeclared “AI assisted” code all over the place already.
You can always use LMDE which is based on Debian upstream instead of Ubuntu.