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Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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You can have single threaded race conditions appear simply from inputs appearing in an unintended ordering. Or on a single core CPU, you can have one task meant to be done first take unusually long time, so the CPU gives time to another thread which finishes first but expected to finish last.