Try it, find out.

No.
Any coding LLM could probably help you piece together the kernel configs, makefiles and so on but you can’t just tell it “build me a linux distro called Mannah Hontana”.

You can give an LLM (or any other ML tech for that matter) any task you’d like, as long as you don’t care that the results are wrong.

I think your understanding of what “AI” is fundamentally flawed if you are asking this question.

The easiest and safest intro to understanding how models work is first to understand that they are not making decisions, they are sorting through data. It’s a very fast parallelization of sorting. There is no version of any model that has a concept of a novel idea.

Next steps from there are understanding what it can provide you, and that is only data it has been trained on and programmed to make relations between. If you get deep down into the lingo, it will referred to as an “alignment” or “relation”.

Example: “A” is a letter. “B” is a letter. They are both letters in the English alphabet. They are not letters of the Cyrillic alphabet. English speaking people will use A and B to write or speak. English is used by these countries…etc

That’s all it can give you.

If you go and ask it how to build a Linux distribution, it will tell you all the relations it knows about those keywords, but can’t go and generate new and novel “thoughts” about it. In more practical situations, it can only give you information about a single point of reference at a time, and a Linux distribution is thousands.

As a general rule, AI can only really perform easy monotonous tasks. Anything that requires creativity or intuition is generally not doable with AI.

The most a GPT AI could do is steal some instructions from some blog somewhere on how to configure a kernel or install some distro, then generate a list of packages.

I once tasked the AI DeepSeek

The building of a distro to achieve

It had while true ; do beep ; done

As PID 1

AI dubbed the poor distro “Kill Me”