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by airhangerf15 102 days ago
Weird, this is a link to an aggregator, not the article itself:

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-03-04-freebsd-users-we-n...

I'm not so sure about his "real value," but I think he makes a decent argument, and he acknowledges the limitations of LLMs at the bottom. As someone who is critical of slop-coding and limits my use of the weighted random code generators, I think his points are worth reading.

The post isn't about the FreeBSD community. It's specifically about how Anthrophic is saying "f-you" to any type of cross-platform agent at all. They've closed issues for OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and many others:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22564

This gets into the issue so many others have brought up: the death of open source. You can just get Claude or GPT to write you a new tool based on other's tests and specs. Now something that was GPLv3 can now be whatever your want, although it will probably be slower, shittier and more difficult (if not impossible) to understand and maintain.

The future is here folks, and it's stupid.

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Am I reading it right that this is just about the installer not being ported? I guess I'm old but I feel like packaging is a long-solved problem. Bizarre...
No I don't think that's it. If it was just the installer, this person should have gotten it working. I was under the impression it was no longer Javascript and was instead some compiled, closed native code, and the either BSD ELF loader or its C library was missing some functionality it needed? /shrug