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Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage
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Exactly. While I do have issues with the ethical and environmental aspects of AI, I do believe that many of the criticisms are disingenuous. Some made me wonder if the one criticizing never worked in a real dev project and just parroting
Bad developer have been copy pasting from stack overflow, writing slop, not following documentation/standards for years. This will never go away.
AI can do amazing good stuff, keeping the exit criterias checked, act as a second opinion, verifying upstreams and helping building a good prototype. making harnesses, hell even find a forgotten RAII pointer or concurrency.
But it can also lead to making gibberish that no one understands, mess up with productivity factor (if someone do code fast, why dont you??) and many other issue.
I think its all about approaching how we can gatekeep the bad code, instead of trying to pin how it was made.