Torvalds is destroying linux. 😐

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[–] 2 points 2 hours ago

If there's one person in the world I trust to call out AI for being stupid, it's Linus Torvalds. I think he can handle it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    meh, it's his toy/joke project, he can break it if he likes. If you don't like it, then Fork it.

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  • I can't tell if sarcasm or stupid

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    Of all things to be tainted by AI, Linux was the one I wanted it to happen to least. He should have just handed it over if he cannot be bothered any more.

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  • [–] 55 points 15 hours ago* (7 children)

    We need distinguish between master programmers who can evaluate AI-generated code and submit it for proper review, and first year interns being told to add 45 features to Friday's update.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago

    Also people act like only AI code is bad quality and full of bugs. I’ve seen enough legacy codebases, and my own side projects, to know that AI does not have a monopoly on slop. We humans are perfectly capable of that ourselves. It’s the code review process that prevents that being merged, AI or not

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  • [–] 13 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

    Good thing that pipeline of people isn't under existential threat. If we get rid of all the interns, problem solved. AI can do that! /s

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

    The mindset of programming is completely different than rubber stamping/tweaking slop... don't know where they are going to get real developers in 20 years.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

    I look at it like COBOL coding. In 20 years they can call me out of retirement and pay me a boatload to maintain the garbage mess that is all that's left.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 hours ago* (2 children)

    Is there any amount of money that can unfuck a codebase after 20 years of rot?

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  • [–] 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)
    [–] 10 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

    Destroying Linux how exactly?

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  • [–] -3 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

    Don't you know that LLM is pure evil and everyone who uses it becomes an idiot? At least that is what those anti-LLM fanatics preaching.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 15 hours ago* (3 children)

    Yes of cource. Even if a troll you got it completely right dude.

    There was a time when no improvements to the kernel required AI.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    May I suggest you ignore the troll and answer the person who asked the question. I'd like to know as well, I'm fairly clueless about this stuff and trying to get a better understanding, other than "slop" level answers.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    Great. I guess I'll stay on pre-ai version for as long as possible..

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  • [–] -1 points 10 hours ago

    Torvalds has one of the best takes on AI so far. It's a useful tool for experienced programmers, that takes care of a lot of the tedious tasks that humans are just not geared for.

    Lets imagine for a second, what programming will be like in 2030. Tell me, do you think there will be less AI assisted code, or more, than there is now?

    And let me ask this: will traditional programming be useless in 2030?

    If the answers are, more and yes, then I understand why one can claim that Torvalds is destroying linux. Otherwise, it's foolish.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Curious why this is so downvoted? Is it not a reliable report? Are people just confused and down voting news they don't like? For news posts downvotes work best to help prevent us from clicking into garbage low quality news links that waste our time. This is something I don't like but want to know about!

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