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Comment by brendyn

Unfortunately guix currently has banned LLM contributions. Its not set in stone but the developers intent to maintain a human based hacker environment. Nothing wrong with carving out ones own subculture of course! There may be a sizable enough community interested in employing LLM usage to get together and create a dedicated channel for packages developed with them, or make a soft fork.

That being said, having worked on guix packages. Automated conversation is not so simple. The bottleneck for me is compilation time and cost. even with superdooper intelligence, you have to trial and error builds, fix mysterious test race conditions and match versions.

A powerful $5000 build server plus another several thousand per year for The electricity cost would go a long way to speeding up this process. Old second hand computers are not viable because the electricity cost for constantly building software on them is not cost effective.

It makes me kinda buthurt when some racist rich people can raise millions for some crappy arch skin distro soft fork, but serious, novel, from the ground up projects have to scratch around in the dirt for pennies. The project may not have truly demonstrated it's worth to justify replacing nix, but I feel it's unique and special enough that it is deserving of some money falling from the sky. It's 1 of only 2 of this style of functional packaging distribution.

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