Post #3859077
2026-07-16 12:59 UTC
@HaTetsu@mastodon.com.pl
If so, it's extremely irresponsible of Linus to say "it's useful" without specifying "as a stochastic spell check, in addition to other quality assurance tools", because very bad people are going to take his "it's undeniably useful" and attach it to the very much not useful code-excretion that is ruining everything.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
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@HaTetsu@mastodon.com.pl 2026-07-16 13:03
@androcat@toot.cat @tante@tldr.nettime.org Didn't he publicly praise the 'autocorrect' aspect in the context of his dive analysis project some time ago? I don't think he draws a line there, as long as the code meets his standards (which may shift)