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Why Linus is Right and AI is Wrong
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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That's a fair point but again, I feel like people are treating Linus comments as if he had said "all AI is welcome, we are not even coding anymore" which is what I think most people fear but not what is happening with Linux
I think that's because Linus subverted all expectations by those people, which comes at a shock. They were expecting Linus to be against Ai. Especially because in the past he was bashing and not taking Ai seriously. So he changed his mind, while the audience (who do not work on the Linux Kernel) stayed with the same opinion.
He did not change his mind, the AI changed, and got way less bad.
Especially for checking code for bugs it can be great. It will not catch everything but 90%.
He changed his mind, because Ai started to get useful.
indeed, that does sound like a good hypothesis as to what happened here.