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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice (www.xda-developers.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74818680

https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

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[–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

Cause the models have only been reliable for like 6 months, and only cheap for the past two weeks

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I work with frontier models every day that I participate in gainful employment activities, and I don't think I would call them reliable. Definitely not reliable enough to design complicated software correctly on a language there's relatively little training data on.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    They struggle with design because they can't tell a good idea from a bad idea without writing a comparative essay first. You can still make it work as long as no more than a third of your sessions are about implementation. Everything else should be about exploration and planning. The human drives the design.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    To be honest with you, that sounds like more effort than just making it yourself for the most part.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    It's an equal amount of effort but 10 to 100 times more productive so I actually have time to add unit tests and error recovery strategies before the managers come asking questions.

    I guess if your company isn't totally dysfunctional it's not as helpful but I've never even heard of a corporate dev environment not ran by idiot PMs

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