Hugo Buddelmeijer via <[email protected]> writes: > Let's limit the scope a bit, to my favorite pastime: refreshing Guix > packages. Guix has over 30000 packages. Involving agents in > maintaining them would make that massively more manageable. … > There was indeed not an explicit proposal here. So for clarity, and > specificity: I propose to use LLMs and Agents in updating Guix > packages.
How do they improve over the existing update-checks?
Are they more reliable than
./pre-inst-env guix refresh -u PACKAGE
?
And if they are in some situations: why not improve guix refresh
instead, which improves the situation for everyone, including people
without subscription to a proprietary service or access to massive
computing power?
> This small list is just scratching the surface, but these are things
> I'd like to do already now:
These are generic claims, unrelated to Guix.
> Yes, that scraping is pretty bad and we should not contribute that. I
> don't actually know whether the LLMs I use do this agressieve
> crawling; I should check, thanks.
It’s almost guaranteed that they do.
I see every major LLM company hit my server with tons of requests.
Yesterday 47% requests in the logs of my personal website were detected
by goaccess as crawlers (this is likely underestimated, because my logs
zero out parts of the IPs to respect the privacy of my visitors).
Summing up march 2026, detected crawlers downloaded 277.75 GiB of data
in 1,161,790 requests.
Differenting them shows bots by every LLM company I know (and then
some).
For context: this is a personal website, not some video sharing service.
99% of its content does not change from month to month. So I consider
LLM companies to be staging a DoS on every public website.
> What slop? Again, trying to assume good faith: code is something LLMs
> do very well, often better than people.
My experience is very different: LLMs quickly output a lot of code, but
they make review harder. Our main bottleneck is review (which is the
main bottleneck for most Free Software Projects), so LLMs make our
bottleneck worse. Before you go there (since this is the reply I got too
often): LLMs commenting on code is no review. It just increases the
amount of generated content people have to read, so it makes review
require more human effort.
Best wishes,
Arne
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