How do you not understand that code quality alone is not a good measure for viability?

Take ZFS, for example. It is inarguably a good filesystem, and its code is... well, it's not bad, so let's quantify it as good, or good enough. But it's still poison for the Linux codebase, because of its conflicting license.

Or take sweatshop labor, or slavery. Would you accept "good" code written under duress?

"AI is just a tool." No. Machine learning algorithms are a tool. LLMs are an ecosystem, composed of agents, models, infrastructure, continuous labor to maintain the models updated, and more. And like in biological ecosystems, the worst performing factor determines the maximum health score, which for LLMs is "unethical as fuck."

Linus may be smart about OSes and seems competent about project management, but I wouldn't trust him to give me medical advice, and his opinion on AI is also wrong.