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Given his flogging of LLMs with respect to the kernel, I'm guessing Linus is of the opinion that vibe coding is okay to play around with for yourself and for your personal tools, but to use it professionally or to force others to interact with your own vibe coded junk is where the fault lies. This is a fairly mature take on the surface, but also I'm someone who really can't get past the part where the inherent existence of LLMs is carving ruin through the world through their content theft, resource depletion, and class warfare... so like... I hope he pulls a little harder on those threads sometime instead of judging it purely based on its utility.
Its also generally stupid for any well respecting practitioner of a trade to just disregard a new tool because its new and different.
You at least try it, learn about it, use it. If it doesn't work you set it down and watch it. Someone else may find a use case for it.
AI is in that spot right now, despite the over push from the corpos into everything. Ai does have a number of use cases that arn't bad not great either to be fair. And the tool IS improving every few months.
If you can pull your own dick out of your ass for long enough to be pragmatic its pretty easy to tell that while Ai wont ever live up to its hype it will find a good place in most peoples work flow at SOME level. Its unlikely that Ai will reach a level where it will EVER be safe to deploy for a project as high profile as the kernel. Least not Ai as we currently think of it. But for a hobby project to rough out some jank code and boot strap a projects proof of concept? Its honestly good enough for that already.
(general you, not you in particular coyote)
But it's perfectly reasonable to disregard a tool for ethical reasons, of which there are many
As long as its a local instance then everything should be fine.
That is a major improvement but it doesn't alleviate concerns of being trained on copyleft code, which I take seriously.
Linus is also trained on that code
I was trained on Stack Overflow, OBVIOUSLY