Funny because out of all the distros, Gentoo benefits from LLM usage, at least as a power user. I have fixed many-an-issues just having LLMs write patches in a way that portage automatically builds them, or rapidly put together ebuilds. I respect upstream decision though and don't share my changes (and realistically who would want them)

Gentoo is doing as well as it’s always done. It’s clearly a very niche distribution. I say this as someone that used Gentoo for years.

They are free to keep pretending that they aren’t receiving covert AI contributions, because I’d bet the farm that they are.

Debian has a little more ‘general interest’

Yes for gentoo and their users it makes sense. Debian is much, much larger and is used pretty extensively in enterprises.

The biggest question, I think, is: does a complete LLM ban interfere with, or slow down, security patches? I think it could, as LLMs are used a lot for vulnerability discovery.

I've been running Gentoo for 20 years. What you consider "Gentoo" is simply the package manager and "ebuilds"; instructions to build upstream packages. Right now I'm using LLMs to make my own ebuilds and maintain them. The packages I am compiling are basically vanilla upstream Linux packages. It is laughable to suggest Gentoo doesn't use AI made code because upstream already has it.

You would not even know about it if they were not doing well