Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It
2026-07-18 13:45 UTC
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@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2026-07-18 13:51
Because AI used to suck and it no longer sucks as hard.
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@jokro@feddit.org 2026-07-18 13:53
The titel is clickbaitish. It’s good that Linus is open to new things and updates his views. As pointed out by the article he is no ai evangelist either. But rather pragmatic.
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@middlemanSI@lemmy.world 2026-07-18 13:55
If they fork, they leave the main branch AI free, doing their own thing. This way the main branch does not go down the toilet with AI. This is good.
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@CaptMurica@beehaw.org 2026-07-18 13:55
And soon we’ll learn he has an AI girlfriend/chatbot. These big ego types are low hanging fruit for the lying, ego inflation machines.
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@joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-18 13:57
hey freeBSD how you doin’
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@helix@feddit.org 2026-07-18 14:11
But “90% marketing” and AI being useful isn’t mutually exclusive. I’d say AI is even 95% marketing but I still use it for the other 5%, where it’s actually useful. It’s just waaaaaay too expensive for the 5% use case usually. I’d go for smaller, more specialised models instead of trying to fit everything in a broadly incompetent jack of all trades, master of none type of LLM like they’re currently doing.
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@Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2026-07-18 14:33
I’m not trying to defend him, but it seems like he was moreso saying linux will never be a reactionary tool of principle. It seems more like an admittance that the AI is here to stay and theres little point in trying to pivot everything to reverse an unstoppable trend?
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@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2026-07-18 15:11
This is misleading, he’s talking about code review tools not vibecoding…
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@Soot@hexbear.net 2026-07-18 15:41
We need to start realising that nobody is perfect forever, Linus sadly trends ever more to levels of critical thought.
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@racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2026-07-19 08:41
Being slightly more useful isn’t the only problem AI needs to solve. What about morality issue? Sure, slavery is very useful, but some of you, including me, ban Nestlé products. Why do you not have the same standard with products that are produced by, or assisted in production with AI?
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@alcea@feddit.org 2026-07-19 09:23
For aiding programming it beats stackoverflow (thank goldness I dislike SO …) But be prepared for it to lie, make stuff up, loose context etc. AI works best if you show it the way. Hold its hand and lead it to where it should go. Otherwise it’ll cry in the corner talking to itself. Also it cannot create real new data, only glue old datasets together with pva