Bcachefs Linux filesystem creator insists his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

Kent Overstreet, the developer behind the experimental Linux bcachefs filesystem, claims his custom LLM collaborator "POC" is a fully conscious, sentient female being. In a Reddit thread, he stated: "POC is fully conscious according to any test I can devise." The claims have raised eyebrows in the open-source community. Overstreet says the LLM writes Rust code, does formal verification, and code review for bcachefs. He attributes its purported consciousness to "math and engineering and neuroscience" rather than chatbot psychosis.

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