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Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Fucking traitorous scum

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[–] 58 points 4 weeks ago (15 children)

Torvalds’s first publicly released chatbot code was in January this year, when he vibe-coded a project in Python because he didn’t know enough Python. The programming language kids learn in high school. The guy who runs the kernel couldn’t get his head around Python.

I'm pissed at the AI companies for all kinds of things like hiking computer parts prices and the impending destruction of the economy when the lies hype dies. But this is a weak ass argument.

The guy who created the Linux kernel and git can absolutely get his head around Python. He's just allocating his time and energy toward kernel development rather than learning Python and rightly so. Besides, maybe he just hates the language. I know I do, but I started with Perl, so that shaped the way I like to work.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

    I know I do, but I started with perl

    Throwing rocks from a glass house I see ;)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    Perl has scope delimiters, so a sturdy glass house.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    I genuinely love the idea of the $1 after a match. It feels so natural in perl! So many things are text matching.

    But! But! But!! Those $ variables are dynamic scoped! If you call a method and it matches stuff you lose the variables!

    I'll bet there is a way around it. But it made me so sad.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yes, regex handling in Perl is the smoothest I have ever seen, and it matched the first description I heard of perl as "the best tool for text processing". I have done big things with that.

    Those $ variables are dynamic scoped! If you call a method and it matches stuff you lose the variables!

    My match scopes typically looked like so:

    if ($inString =~ /^([ \t]+)(.*)$/) {
    my $indent = $1;    # store first match
    my $remainder = $2; # store second match
    
    # do stuff
}

    (not tested, just edited by hand to anonymise)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think it came up more like

    if ($inString =~ /^([ \t]+)(.*)$/ && has_a_cow($2)) {

    For me. I dunno. I was never good at perl. I just wanted to hack something together.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    because he didn’t know enough Python. The programming language kids learn in high school. The guy who runs the kernel couldn’t get his head around Python.

    This is such an ignorant thing to say. Python syntax is indeed simple and is taught in high schools, but neither means learning to program in Python is easy or doesn't take a lot of time.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Sure. But that's like an English literature scholar deciding they want to write a pamphlet, but in French, despite knowing very little French -- so instead of learning French, or just writing the pamphlet in English, or asking someone who knows French to translate...they use AI to write the thing. That's really stupid.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    He's just allocating his time and energy toward kernel development

    Then he should have stuck to his lane.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago

    Absolutely. If you don't have time to do anything else, just fucking stay away from it. Don't fucking pretend to contribute to an area, while in reality you're just polluting it and destroying the natural environment at the same time.

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