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Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters (www.theregister.com)
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Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.

Torvalds was interviewed by Dirk Hohndel, head of open source at Verizon, at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul, South Korea, earlier this month.

Torvalds is technical lead and maintainer of the Linux kernel, but said that "for the last almost 20 years, I've not been a programmer." As for Git, which he invented, "I really just look at it from the side."

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[–] 31 points 11 months ago

important context:

Regarding vibe coding, Torvalds described himself as "fairly positive" – but not for kernel development. Computers have become more complicated than when he learned to code and was "typing in programs from computer magazines." Vibe coding, he said, is a great way for people to "get computers to do something that maybe they couldn't do otherwise."

This is despite the fact that vibe coding "may be a horrible, horrible idea from a maintenance standpoint."

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