[kennethops]

>You cannot understand everything.

I 100% agree with this in a individual person sense, but in a humanity sense someone does understand linux very deeply and is very intentional on how they change it which to me is how I gain trust in it.

does trust change when the entire SLDC is AI?

[bluGill]

Linux is less then 40 years old. Most of the people who designed it are still alive. How will the situation be in 40 years when the current maintainers are dead? (reiserfs comes to mind - it was just becoming great when [censored] and filesystems in linux went backward for many years, will that be allowed to happen next time?)

There are systems still in use from the 1960s (maybe before) - the original authors are at least retired and likely dead. I question how well the replacements understand all that. Sure they have had to dig in and understand some parts, but what about the parts that just keep working and don't need new features?

[aetherson]

Genuine question: is there a big inherent difference between "I don't understand this thing but I think this other human does," and "I don't understand this but I think this other AI does"?

If your answer is "yes," do you think that's inherent to the (metaphysical?) fact of it being AI or to specific limitations to current AI? If the latter, what changes to AI would let you trust it?

[bluGill]

I don't know. AI has an understand of some really complex things, but it also does some really stupid things. Depending on which it did most recently for me I change my answer.

The question is does AI understand well enough to maintain that thing for whatever maintenance I need to do in the future?

[aetherson]

People also do some really stupid things, I'll just throw out.

But it also kind of sounds like you're just saying that there's a scalar of "get a little better" before you'd trust AI with something.

[bluGill]

Also I'm reserving the right to discover other areas of concern. But yes overall I'm waiting to see if it gets better by enough.

[irickt]

SDLC ? software development life cycle ?

[kennethops]

Yeah, software development life cycle.