Being slightly more useful isn’t the only problem AI needs to solve. What about morality issue? Sure, slavery is very useful, but some of you, including me, ban Nestlé products. Why do you not have the same standard with products that are produced by, or assisted in production with AI?
Because AI used to suck and it no longer sucks as hard.
Oh it does, especially in the wrong hands
The point is that in the correct hands it does not.
Then how do you stop its wrong-hand usage ?
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Insisting on high standards for code readability and quality - even higher than before GenAI was a thing - could help.
Ofc, but even before LLMs, executives wanted to get things fast in any way possible, allowing for crappy code to get shipped. LLMs made it far easier and likable since “AI SMART”
Thankfully, Linux doesn’t have executives and shareholders like Windows does… right?
We need to start realising that nobody is perfect forever. People can be really cool and insightful and intelligent for decades and go on to be frequently wrong about stuff later.
Linus sadly trends ever more to
levels of lacking critical thought.Too bad
If they fork, they leave the main branch AI free, doing their own thing. This way the main branch does not go down the toilet with AI. This is good.
I think you may be misunderstanding the situation. He’s telling AI critics to stop complaining or fork. If that happens, the main branch will still have AI submissions, and the fork will be the AI-free one.
Important to note: Torvalds is not an LLM evangelist, nor does he just accept AI slop uncritically. The official policy is that LLM written/assisted code is fine, but the quality must hit the bar expected of Linux kernel submissions, and the submitter takes full responsibility for the code correctness whether they personally wrote it or not. Just submitting LLM code with no verification or tests is a great way of getting banned from submitting pull requests and getting a very angry email from Linus.
And soon we’ll learn he has an AI girlfriend/chatbot. These big ego types are low hanging fruit for the lying, ego inflation machines.
