I wouldn’t be surprised if the potential problem wasn’t limited to the original chardet alone, regarding what might be affected by this rewrite allegedly having silently relicensed code…

I don’t really trust IBM to know what they’re doing, but it’s still a nice sign.

The lack of intelligence is inherent for LLMs: https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/

This is likely why Apple is the only big tech company that hasn’t entered the AI race with tons of debt and tons of data centers. They’re likely seeing the writing on the wall.

While there could be a new technique arriving to solve this some day, there also may never be one.

It’ll backfire for any non-trivial code base at some point. LLM plagiarized code is just too inherently lacking any sense of big picture. Gen AI doesn’t have the necessary intelligence. I keep linking it but it keeps being relevant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/

I doubt it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/ Gen AIs are literally so unable to have any basic logical thought, I think this is merely the hype.

To anybody still being scared, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3400S4qMH6o

Seems like part of the problem is that once they identify AI being involved in a contribution, they’re not rejecting it immediately.

There are solutions to this like having a doc comment right next to the function which is picked up by some API generator. Then it’s easier to keep in sync. That can work well even in languages without explicit parameter types.

Seems like a solution would be 1. update docs and 2. don’t use LLMs to code.

A rolling back mechanism is the best thing to have for server tweaks. I achieve the same with docker. Something similar might be possible with FreeBSD Jails, podman, or anything similar like that. (Not that NixOS is a bad choice, I just wanted to share some more options for anybody looking for some to try.)