414
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

Your argument is based on the assumtion that AI "thinks" in the same way humans do. Which it does not, since it doesn't think at all.

And being called a tool to generate code is borderline insulting tbh.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    No my argument does not depend on that at all, it merely depends on the distinction between generating code (which LLMs do in a nondeterministic manner) and compiling/running the generated code (which happens, as with code written by humans, in a deterministic manner). Also I did not call humans tools.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent