We recently wrote about Torvalds’ atypically subtle and nuanced position on the use of LLM bots in coding. It seems that the reasons have suddenly become a little clearer.
Google’s Antigravity LLM has been winning other friends of late, including Register columnist Mark Pesce, who wrote that “vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software.” Some other big names in the world of FOSS have also come out in favor of LLM coding assistants recently, including Redis creator Salvatore “Antirez” Sanfilippo, who wrote “don’t fall into the anti-AI hype.” Said hype is, of course, a subject about which Torvalds opined previously.
Torvalds’ position has been more moderate, which is not entirely like his former self. He is famed for his outbursts at Nvidia, GitHub, third-party companies, and kernel contributors. We could go on, but you get the picture.
Because anyone can fall for stupid shit.
Tldr, he’s fine with it because he was lazy
ITT: Anything that makes work easier for the same end goal is laziness.
The guy literally said that he didn’t want to bother learning python and that it’s why he used this crap.
If that’s not intellectual laziness I don’t know what is.
Don’t be a stupid shit. You use things on the daily without full comprehension of them.
If you write code without understanding what you’re doing, to the point where an AI is achieving better results, you should question your choices.
Today we knew that Linus Torvalds is lazy and stupid ✍️
I think it is intellectual laziness to do Python just for its ecosystem when saner options abound.