Exceptions to the three-character minimum for tags

[grahamperrin]

Generally, the value of two-character tags is questionable.

That said, can an exception be made? As a tag:

• ai

Topics such as https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/227 would fit.

The alternative, twenty-three characters, is way beyond the fifteen-character maximum:

• artificial intelligence

Thanks

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Elsewhere, https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544567 drily noted that "… Any suggestions to implement a two-char search limit will be met with a ban …" however that was with regard to searching within body text, not metadata. XenForo with MySQL.

[t3]

The two-character term "AI" is grossly overused and overloaded. It can describe a multitude of techniques which have few commonalities between them, and even the same techniques can be used in very different ways (are fuzzing and testing tools the same as writing assistants, grammar and spelling checkers, fancy autocomplete, and expert systems? does lumping them together help discourse or development? is it helpful at all to place those tools in the same categories as machine vision, OCR, speech recognition, etc?). "GenAI" might be a better tag.

[CiotBSD]

"GenAI" is interesting and certainly means: "Generated by AI"; but, when the "Generative AI" will raise up, what tag will use too?

"artificial intelligence" is too long; and surely, the "intelligence" is absolutly "artificial", like the term…

Personally, I've appreciated the current approach in the context of the Linux kernel; for example:

• "Assist-AI", "Assisted-by-AI"
• "Agentic-AI" (used on others contexts…)

[grahamperrin]

Lobsters has the ai tag in its compsci category.

https://lobste.rs/tags

[CiotBSD]

@grahamperrin

Stories tagged as ai Developing artificial intelligence, machine learning. Tag AI usage only with vibecoding.

vibecoding: whynot?!

[grahamperrin]

Also (obviously) … https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/deck/tags/ai

[CiotBSD]

Egual same pb with:

• VM about a VM (virtualization); for *BSD, we can use certainly vmm, like on OpenBSD… but "what else!".

[CiotBSD]

Other:

• pf for packet-filter;
  (yes, I seen the packetfilter tag)