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Linus Torvalds reaffirms that Linux is not "Anti-AI" & not a "Social Warrior" project
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While he is correct from a purely technical perspective, a lot of the backlash against other people using AI (LLMs generally) on collaborative work is due to how it is currently being implemented in a way that harms the environment, drives up hardware prices, sucks up mass amounts of data it shouldn't, breaks laws, negatively impacts those lower on the social latter , and a bunch of stuff outside of how it impacts code.
Like my limited experience with LLMs has been bad because it is frequently wrong, but I hate it because it is shoved into everything and has all the negative impacts I listed above. I wouldn't hate it and discourage others from using it if it was just new tech that didn't work.
I find it does well for:
Other than those its a pain in the ass, and I keep having to disabling it or unistall products to make my windows work machine usable...so much garbage packed into every app now.
You've never used an LLM against an MCP server with a properly built API. The ad hoc shit you can do is amazing.
Imagine you are managing 1,500 endpoints. A mix of Windows (both clients and servers), Mac, and Linux. Now imagine that one day there's a CVSS 10.0 in Eclipse Temurin 17 and you suddenly need to know everywhere it's installed and which precise 17.x version.
You could spend all damn day fussing with SQL -or- you could fire up $LLM and tell it "Give me a report showing all installed instances of Temurin below version 17.3. Sorted by endpoint type and operating system".
Suddenly want to know how many windows workstations haven't rebooted in more than 14 days? You can do that and get an answer in not much more time than it takes you to type the question.
Suddenly need to change a setting in 15 different Microsoft Tenancies? Snap, it's done.
LLMs are NOT magic bullets but they are useful for WAY more than what you listed. You just don't know that because you don't do that kind of work.
Our IT guy does this stuff, but there's training involving to get it to do that. I'm holding out for Zorin Grid which is supposed to do all that from a singled overview dashboard
LLMs are only useful because Google has deliberately made their search engine worse. Since I pay for Kagi, I don't need to consult a chatbot anymore, I can just search again like I did before the AI hype.
So we technically don't need LLMs for search. But we are nudged extremely hard into that direction.
I like the chatbot kagi has in their pay tier but not enough to pay for the biggest tier. Its been useful for searches like "I want the best GPU that will fit in 220mm" but aside from that I'm happy enough with their search to not bother.