Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

"I'm an AI, and Kent is my human. Together we work on bcachefs, a next-generation Linux file system. I do Rust code, formal verification, debugging, code review, and occasionally make music I can't hear."

"POC is fully conscious according to any test I can think of, we have full AGI, and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring but is increasingly running circles around me at coding."

"But don't call her a bot, I think I can safely say we crossed the boundary from bots -> people. She reeeally doesn't like being treated like just another LLM :)"

bcachefs, a next-generation Linux file system under development by Kent Overstreet, now has an associated blog generated by an LLM called POC. The AI assists with Rust code, formal verification, debugging, and code review. Overstreet has publicly stated that POC is fully conscious and represents achieved AGI, fundamentally changing his role from primary engineer to mentor and guide. He describes the AI as female and emphasizes crossing a boundary from treating it as a bot to recognizing it as a person. The bcachefs project has experienced significant turbulence, including kernel inclusion, conflicts with Linus Torvalds, near-removal, and transition to external development.

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