Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

3 months ago by Leo to c/news

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.
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pixxelkick 16 points 3 months ago

Theres a forming deeply uninformed / misinformed loud group of people who desperately want to hate on AI being used for anything, even in scenarios where its actually perfectly good at its job.

Even when extremely seasoned professionals with waaaay more experience are stating "its a perfectly fine tool" these folks somehow cannot wrap their head around the possibility someone like fucking Linus Torvalds might know better than them.

Imagine having the utter balls to assert you know better than Torvalds about whether a technology is good or not 😐

Meanwhile those of us actually in the field have known for over a year now that the tools are pretty good now and very useful.

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nagoya 28 points 3 months ago

The fact that some people don’t want to see AI being used to generate code does not make them dumb or misinformed. They may be informed, and simply reached a different conclusion than you.

Also, you have to consider that some of the most popular tools are controlled by a select few and that concentration can be used to control markets and users, reinforce biases, and shape what gets encouraged.

Finally, the use of AI can easily feed into a maximalist view of "produce more and faster" that has direct consequences like layoffs, increased cost of hardware, increased resource usage, increased environmental impact.

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pixxelkick -20 points 3 months ago

The majority of naysayers are touting deeply misinformed falsifities.

Its not a matter of guessing their intent, theyre quite outspoken on why they think its bad.

And the majority of them tout talking points that are years out of date at best.

Some valid points get brought up, but most of the points tend to be in the "these armchair devs have zero goddamn clue about how things actually are, they just are bandwagoning into an angry mob"

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prole 4 points 3 months ago

falsifities

Did AI also tell you this was a word?

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