Can AI Code and Build a Full Linux Distro?
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Hey all!
Can AI actually code and build a full Linux distro? creating the kernel, setting up packages, and configuring everything. Is it feasible or is it still too complex?
Would love to hear your thoughts or experiences!
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No.
Any coding LLM could probably help you piece together the kernel configs, makefiles and so on but you can't just tell it "build me a linux distro called Mannah Hontana". -
You can give an LLM (or any other ML tech for that matter) any task you'd like, as long as you don't care that the results are wrong.
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Try it, find out.
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I think your understanding of what "AI" is fundamentally flawed if you are asking this question.
The easiest and safest intro to understanding how models work is first to understand that they are not making decisions, they are sorting through data. It's a very fast parallelization of sorting. There is no version of any model that has a concept of a novel idea.
Next steps from there are understanding what it can provide you, and that is only data it has been trained on and programmed to make relations between. If you get deep down into the lingo, it will referred to as an "alignment" or "relation".
Example: "A" is a letter. "B" is a letter. They are both letters in the English alphabet. They are not letters of the Cyrillic alphabet. English speaking people will use A and B to write or speak. English is used by these countries...etc
That's all it can give you.
If you go and ask it how to build a Linux distribution, it will tell you all the relations it knows about those keywords, but can't go and generate new and novel "thoughts" about it. In more practical situations, it can only give you information about a single point of reference at a time, and a Linux distribution is thousands.
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As a general rule, AI can only really perform easy monotonous tasks. Anything that requires creativity or intuition is generally not doable with AI.
The most a GPT AI could do is steal some instructions from some blog somewhere on how to configure a kernel or install some distro, then generate a list of packages.
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I once tasked the AI DeepSeek
The building of a distro to achieve
It had
while true ; do beep ; doneAs PID 1
AI dubbed the poor distro "Kill Me"
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Mannah Hontana
If they did Hannah Montana Linux and Biebian and they were not much else than Debian with some wallpapers and themes I can create Billie EiLishnux or some shit like that and prove than I'm more capable than your average ai and you can't stop me.
