The LLM-gen-AI Elephant
in Our FOSS Room


Denver Gingerich

SeaGL 2026

Saturday 24 October 2026

https://ossguy.com/talks/20261024_seagl/

technology

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power

dependence

backlash

"Breaking Free"

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community

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autonomy

interdependence

strength

control

May 2026 - a first guitar amp fix

Aug 2026 - fixed Meta Quest bootloader

this week - LLMs and "explosion of custom firmware"

3 days ago - LLMs used to find/fix critical PHP bugs

2 days go - we fixed the Switch 2

tools

modularization

recommendations

https://sfc.ngo/ai-recs

equality

Thanks!

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