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The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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That doesn't sound like "from scratch"
I agree, but given the context of the discussion and the commonly accepted definition of Linux from Scratch, what else do you think they could have meant other than building a complete Linux based operating system from source?
The thing that literally everything other than apparently Linux means when someone says building it from scratch?
Does that actually match with the discussion in your opinion? The discussion about building open source projects? Does the information I provided not help in understanding my response?
Are you being serious or just trying to be pedantic..?
Yes it does match the discussion. They were discussing creating an LLM, from scratch, and no one was implying hitting a button and having it get created automatically for them as being the level of difficulty that the process would entail.
So really you're the one who took this off on a tangent.
We seem to have a very different view of the discussion of "open source" and "open source models" above. I don't entirely see how you arrived there, but that's OK. I don't think I took it on a tangent at all. No biggie I guess it's just a forum.