So many people in the comments (of the linked site) butthurt over this decision. Ai generated code is just bad, bro. Nobody wants a program coded by someone who doesn't understand the output.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Well, it's Hacker News. A place run by Mark Andreesen and has huge incentives, especially on the personal level, to worship AI.
I'm surprised by the comments that are smart enough to push back against the corporate line.
I'm really glad to hear that.
Funny that the top comment is a pro AI guy trying to cancel the people who are criticizing it for not being part of the project, when AI by definition does not give care about, or understand, any code it creates.
Transparency increases trust, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Gods. The second I saw that Torvalds used an LLM to generate any amount of code I knew people would be annoying as shit about it. And here we are with people being annoying as shit about it.
That's quite nice, I've got to say.