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Linus Torvalds has been AI curious for a while. He went on Linus Sebastian’s YouTube channel, Linus Tech Tips, in November last year. He was clearly well into the chatbot already: [YouTube]
That’s reality. Deal with it. That genie is out of the bottle. You’re not getting it back. And you’re not getting it back whether you are a photographer who’s out of work. Those things are gone, right? Because you can fake pictures so much better now. Or you’re a programmer that has to learn to deal with a new reality.
I think actually on the programming side, we’re in a fairly good spot. I really think that AI will be a tool and it will make people more productive. I think that vibe coding is great for getting into programming. I think it’s going to be a horrible thing to maintain.
That could be why he also said it’s time to make it harder to get started committing to Linux. As in, no vibe coding newbies wanted, patches will be accepted from people who actually know how the kernel works
Yikes, I wasn’t aware that he had said that. That’s a completely terrible mistake. It’s the same mistake that corporations have been warned about for a while now: if you stop hiring and training junior developers, pretty you won’t have any senior developers because the pipeline that produces the seniors has been dismantled. What a terrible thing AI is turning out to be. The comparison to asbestos was apt.
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That could be why he also said it’s time to make it harder to get started committing to Linux. As in, no vibe coding newbies wanted, patches will be accepted from people who actually know how the kernel works
Yikes, I wasn’t aware that he had said that. That’s a completely terrible mistake. It’s the same mistake that corporations have been warned about for a while now: if you stop hiring and training junior developers, pretty you won’t have any senior developers because the pipeline that produces the seniors has been dismantled. What a terrible thing AI is turning out to be. The comparison to asbestos was apt.