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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
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unpopular opinion, especially on the fediverse, but: AI is not inherently bad.
it is a tool, that can do everything to a pretty low standard but rather fast. so it is up to the learnt human to use the thing at the right time. i use the company ai at regularly at work, but treat it as an apprentice: every line of code has to be checked, because it will fail hilariously. but it does type faster than me, so simple and boring jobs can be done by it.
i don't see the appeal of avoiding generated code at all cost. it is not different from human code in that it can fail horribly. the important thing is oversight. is there someone with the knowledge and keen eye to ensure no BS is merged. Linus, in my opinion, spent a lifetime building that reputation.
It's the same as people saying not to use calcs or Wikipedia, new times same issues.
But we very much do enforce times on when not to use calcs. Thars the whole point here.
It's worse than that, even. The calcs and even the Wikis were below or at human error levels, the AIs will peak below 95% accuracy with infinite power and training according to studies by OpenAI in 2020 and Deepmind in 2022 correcting a math error they made.