ImgurRefugee114 comments on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 39 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

Tools are just tools; there are good ways and bad ways to use them. "Grok, go find bugs in the Linux kernel" isn't a good one. This isn't hard to understand...

There were many, partially well-intentioned, mostly fame-seeking, one-off 'projects' 'scanning' public repos and flooding them with low-quality low-effort PRs and issues; things that no human ever read until the a maintainer did.

"They made a poison and sold us a cure" is absolutely a valid criticism; that's two sides of the same coin. But pretending that he's being hypocritical or that LLMs aren't useful is just being wrong for the sake of hating AI

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[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

AI is useful as tool like he said, unfortunately these days in many organisations it is used as a replacement rather than a tool.

His conclusion was that as AI tools get more capable, the people who actually understand how systems work become more valuable, not less — because someone still has to review, maintain, and take responsibility for what the tools produce.

Humans still need to learn how to code.

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[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Tools are just tools

I don't think that's true, but we simply disagree on that.

I don't think he's hypocritical. He simply doesn't have to deal with that negative impact he "warns" about. He is in support of using it as a tool and thinks the criticism is invalid. That's a consistent perspective, even if I don't agree with it.

If he used LLMs to create bug reports, but also complained about LLM written bug reports he gets, that would be hypocritical.

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