shamoon

Hey, dont believe me, Im just a random, but this guy seems like worth a listen: arstechnica.com/…/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai…

At the risk of getting internet-assaulted I am one of the primary devs, feel free to ask me about it. To address some of the issues already raised:

• All the new “AI” (LLM) features are opt-in, meaning if you dont enable them you wont see them, literally. At all.
• All of them can also be run local-only, of course.
• There are a ton of other features as well.
• One of our devs has made use of Claude especially around database schema improvements, which is a particularly tricky thing to work on. I dont like AI, I wish I could go back to the world before it, but I cant. So at this point it is almost absurd to not use LLM tools to some degree in programming. AI slop or vibe-coding is to do so indiscriminately, and I hate that too. Believe me we get tons of PRs from people with basically no dev experience or abilities… and we dont accept them. We expect the same from ourselves. We use it sparingly and very specifically, interrogate it aggresi