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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

www.xda-developers.com

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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

www.xda-developers.com

themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Avoiding software without AI code is getting very difficult.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

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    Yep, and even more important are the cases where coding models are used outside of actually producing code. Unit tests, red teaming, bug hunting and so on are all areas where LLMs can reduce the load on an experienced coder, allowing him to concentrate on the meaty stuff. Blindly being against the technology itself because big tech currently consists of a bunch of asshats is not a mature stance.

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      Blindly being against the technology itself because big tech currently consists of a bunch of asshats is not a mature stance.

      yeah it’s not gonna lead to any problems lol. meanwhile reality is disagreeing. I get it, you’re a slopfan, so this pointless you’re not going to listen / try to understand, but for the rest of the audience, here’s some other views:

      https://thenewstack.io/karpathy-says-developers-have-ai-psychosis-everyone-else-is-next/

      https://aiforautomation.io/news/2026-05-17-ai-psychosis-hacker-news-1979-developers-vote

      https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/202507/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-psychosis

      https://therenegadecoder.com/blog/why-generative-ai-makes-the-future-of-software-development-worse/

      https://www.slashgear.com/1970560/ai-coding-problems-security-risks/

      https://andrewjcode.substack.com/p/ai-is-writing-terrible-code

      https://letsdatascience.com/blog/developers-thought-ai-made-them-faster-the-data-said-otherwise

      https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/proof-ai-making-developers-worse-came-from-anthropic-itself-oatley-0kjje/

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        I am not a “slopfan”. I do not use any of the techbros services, and never have outside of a few test runs in 2022 to see what it can do.

        I only use local models running on my own hardware, and only to automate tasks that would take ages by hand (e.g. creating summaries about gameplay and features of my game collection from the game stores websites, helping me with RegEx or quickly creating one-shot python scripts for specific purposes - i am a terrible coder), or that make interacting with large technical documents easier (e.g. mainboard manuals). I have dabbled a bit with image generation, but it isn’t really interesting for me.

        But denying that the technology can reduce workload on coders even when not generating code (e.g. unit tests, red teaming, reverse engineering) is immature. These tasks are also much less prone to cause AI psychosis, because i do not care about “chatting” with these models.

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          (e.g. creating summaries about gameplay and features of my game

          a) that’s how it starts, you think you’re pure and it doesn’t count because it’s only cursor, or it’s only for prototyping, or whatever.

          b) when it hallucinates garbage, as all LLMs do, even the local ones you run on your own power gobblin hardware, do you think it’ll put an asterix by the parts it wasn’t really sure about lol?

          c) dear fucking god, why would you need someone (SOMETHING) else to summarize the gameplay and features of your own product? have you no pride in your work?

          don’t reply, I don’t care, you’re going to get burned by it one day you just think you’re different.

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