He could get his head around python if he wanted to, that statement is laughable.

because he didn’t know enough Python. The programming language kids learn in high school. The guy who runs the kernel couldn’t get his head around Python.

This is such an ignorant thing to say. Python syntax is indeed simple and is taught in high schools, but neither means learning to program in Python is easy or doesn't take a lot of time.

I know I do, but I started with perl

Throwing rocks from a glass house I see ;)

Been a bit of a bother trying to find the actual info and not a rage piece that makes FOX News look sane. And I don't touch that agency with an 11ft pole.

From what I remember reading, Linus uses LLMs to help during bug hunting - the second pair of eyes. This is actually a useful part of the AI models - they may be awful at code writing, but they do seem to have some capability when looking over code as a first line proofer. That is, it's useful for you to get a direction as to where to look further with issues.

As for the Assisted-By tag being removed, it was a matter that no one was really using it, making it functionally useless.

That's really sad actually, i didn't think of that.

Even worse is, that he's inadequately helping capital, including Microsoft, in stripping the common man of their own computing, to rent it back to them.

You either die a hero...

If you take all of the civilization level atrocities being committed constantly by ai companies and their fascist supporters...eh maybe?

I think more developers and engineers need to work on their busted ass moral compasses.

Software engineer writing code for a living, day in, day out for over a decade. I'm completely self taught and never went to uni, and got my first role at 20, if that means anything. I trust nothing from Claude. We just had a "write no code have claude complete in automode". Nope. It's horrible. We even had it write the jira stories. Complete shit.

And yet, from experience as a software dev currently on job hunt because his company is switching mostly only AI developing, that is not what companies are doing and not what a lot of devs seem to be doing. They'll vibe code and see it as done

This exactly! I don't understand how one would let an LLM touch their passion projects. I don't mind someone quickly slopping together a little python script for something, but I would never let it touch my babies. It'd be like buying a self-assembling lego set. Sure the end result is the same, but is the end result why someone buys a lego set?

What about BeOS?

Thanks, I thought I was in a minority thinking he is losing his marbles, but the upvotes you got say there's more people realizing that.

"When did my political project become so political?"
- Person who doesn't realize that literally everything is political

That is one of many issues.

Put a pin in socio-economic-environmental issues for a second.

AI is good at finding bugs/vulnerabilities. If you're using it for peer programming, the output is 100% what you're comfortable with, while you're still directing what goes where and how. That's right up Torvald's alley. Not every piece of code we write is a masterpiece of complicated art. Sometimes, when we are writing a complicated piece, we are unable to see all the ramifications of each piece in a way that AI appears to be able to see.

From this standpoint, even if we had a LOT more people working on the kernel. We'd amplify problems, especially if the people we threw on the project were more free-hands than artists.

Unpin that socio-economic-env stuff now.

Until tokens cost enough that it's not reasonable, or the AI providers make things dumb enough to save money/meet law/eco demands, most code at most places will likely go through at least a post-cleanup/analysis phase. Everything would be labeled slop.

I don't think, long term, that we're going to have AI writing everything at the level we are even now, but it's not impossible. That's not to say I advocate it or push it forward, but there may simply be no way to stop it if the economics / laws allow it to continue.