"Core is investigating setting up a policy for LLM/AI usage (including but not limited to generating code). The result will be added to the Contributors Guide in the doc repository. AI can be useful for translations (which seems faster than doing the work manually), explaining long/obscure documents, tracking down bugs, or helping to understand large code bases. We currently tend to not use it to generate code because of license concerns."
"At the start of December 2022, The Register mentioned the launch of ChatGPT, calling it another AI to fill the world with kinda-true stuff. The boom really got going in 2023. Historically, the BSDs are relatively slow-moving projects compared to the rolling corporate-sponsored frenzy of Linux development. FreeBSD 14.0 only appeared about a year after ChatGPT. FreeBSD 15.0 is scheduled for later this year."
FreeBSD Project teams are advancing multiple efforts including enabling FreeBSD apps to run on Linux, Chinese translation work, Solaris-style Extended Attributes support, and HFS+ filesystem support. Core is developing a policy on LLM/AI usage covering code and documentation and plans to add the policy to the Contributors Guide in the doc repository. Core identifies useful AI roles such as translations, explaining long or obscure documents, tracking down bugs, and helping to understand large codebases. Core currently avoids using AI to generate code because of license concerns, is collecting feedback, and discussed the policy at the core session at BSDCan 2025.
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