▲ 358 ▼ Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race. (thenewstack.io) submitted 1 month ago by mannycalavera@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world 165 comments fedilink hide all child comments They got to him
[–] decolo@piefed.social 23 points 1 month ago (18 children) AI written article 👍 1 permalink fedilink source hideshow 18 child comments replies: [–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (17 children) What do you base that claim on? It says: Oct 14th, 2026 6:59pm by Amanda Caswell https://thenewstack.io/author/amanda-caswell/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 17 child comments replies: [–] davidgro@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago (7 children) Right there in your link, it says she's AI: Amanda Caswell is an AI journalist /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] giiicmrp@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 child) I believe it should be spelled "meat proxy" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) I just saw someone call it "cuck coding" (vs "vibe coding"), because you just sit there. This would make meat proxies Code Cucks instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago Goddammit you had me there until the /s. 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent [–] fonix232@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago (3 children) "AI journalist" is just as confusing as "child killer" Is it an AI pretending to be a journo (is it a child who's a killer), or is it a journo writing about AI (is it a killer targeting children)? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 child) English would prefer killer child instead of child killer for the former because killer can behave as a qualifier. Similarly, AI can act as a qualifier and while sports journalist is valid, any journalist writing about AI code, AI agent, AI whatever must realize what AI journalist sounds like permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago word play is fun permalink fedilink source parent [–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago Not really... “AI journalist” might refer to a plain old astroturfing spambot, or to one piloting a reverse centaur, but it's still the same old spambot when it comes to it, and it'll still be spewing the same worthless slop, so the distinction is mostly moot, merely making the latter option a bit more tragic. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 35 points 1 month ago (8 children) it is a real person, but GPTZero gives it a 100/100, and given she's a proud "prompt engineer" I'm inclined to believe she doesn't do all the writing without... "assistance". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (3 children) This happens when an LLM reads a bunch of pages with stuff it doesn't have much internal knowledge about, and then tries to summarize that into an article. LLMs do not have knowledge about anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online -1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children) Books contain knowledge, I doubt you will find many English scholars that disagree with that. In the same way, LLMs contain knowledge as well, they just also have the ability to output that knowledge in a more dynamic way than a book. You can argue some words that are more anthropomorphic, but knowledge has been attributed to inanimate objects for millennia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child) No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online 0 points 4 weeks ago And books just contain a series of words. You are playing semantics games. An ebook is just a bunch of electrons shoved into a rock. Yet, somehow, it also contains knowledge. In a less abstract way, LLMs giant relational databases that are expressed by using the relationship between previous words to select a word that might follow. It's in the relational graph that the knowledge is stored. The information is there, and the way we've figured out best to get it out is by generating tokens. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (3 children) Not justification for the accusation. Everything is possibly AI slob, that doesn't justify calling everything AI slob. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -5 points 1 month ago (2 children) This comment is ai slop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 child) these downvotes are ai slop permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago You're not wrong. This entire story is not unique in any capacity honestly. The story even points out other developers have tried to fix this issue with problem. The only thing that changed, is that someone saw this time it said "AI", and got a boner thinking about the upvotes and attention they could receive permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (17 children) What do you base that claim on? It says: Oct 14th, 2026 6:59pm by Amanda Caswell https://thenewstack.io/author/amanda-caswell/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 17 child comments replies: [–] davidgro@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago (7 children) Right there in your link, it says she's AI: Amanda Caswell is an AI journalist /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] giiicmrp@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 child) I believe it should be spelled "meat proxy" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) I just saw someone call it "cuck coding" (vs "vibe coding"), because you just sit there. This would make meat proxies Code Cucks instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago Goddammit you had me there until the /s. 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent [–] fonix232@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago (3 children) "AI journalist" is just as confusing as "child killer" Is it an AI pretending to be a journo (is it a child who's a killer), or is it a journo writing about AI (is it a killer targeting children)? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 child) English would prefer killer child instead of child killer for the former because killer can behave as a qualifier. Similarly, AI can act as a qualifier and while sports journalist is valid, any journalist writing about AI code, AI agent, AI whatever must realize what AI journalist sounds like permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago word play is fun permalink fedilink source parent [–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago Not really... “AI journalist” might refer to a plain old astroturfing spambot, or to one piloting a reverse centaur, but it's still the same old spambot when it comes to it, and it'll still be spewing the same worthless slop, so the distinction is mostly moot, merely making the latter option a bit more tragic. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 35 points 1 month ago (8 children) it is a real person, but GPTZero gives it a 100/100, and given she's a proud "prompt engineer" I'm inclined to believe she doesn't do all the writing without... "assistance". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (3 children) This happens when an LLM reads a bunch of pages with stuff it doesn't have much internal knowledge about, and then tries to summarize that into an article. LLMs do not have knowledge about anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online -1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children) Books contain knowledge, I doubt you will find many English scholars that disagree with that. In the same way, LLMs contain knowledge as well, they just also have the ability to output that knowledge in a more dynamic way than a book. You can argue some words that are more anthropomorphic, but knowledge has been attributed to inanimate objects for millennia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child) No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online 0 points 4 weeks ago And books just contain a series of words. You are playing semantics games. An ebook is just a bunch of electrons shoved into a rock. Yet, somehow, it also contains knowledge. In a less abstract way, LLMs giant relational databases that are expressed by using the relationship between previous words to select a word that might follow. It's in the relational graph that the knowledge is stored. The information is there, and the way we've figured out best to get it out is by generating tokens. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (3 children) Not justification for the accusation. Everything is possibly AI slob, that doesn't justify calling everything AI slob. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -5 points 1 month ago (2 children) This comment is ai slop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 child) these downvotes are ai slop permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago You're not wrong. This entire story is not unique in any capacity honestly. The story even points out other developers have tried to fix this issue with problem. The only thing that changed, is that someone saw this time it said "AI", and got a boner thinking about the upvotes and attention they could receive permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago (7 children) Right there in your link, it says she's AI: Amanda Caswell is an AI journalist /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] giiicmrp@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 child) I believe it should be spelled "meat proxy" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) I just saw someone call it "cuck coding" (vs "vibe coding"), because you just sit there. This would make meat proxies Code Cucks instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago Goddammit you had me there until the /s. 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent [–] fonix232@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago (3 children) "AI journalist" is just as confusing as "child killer" Is it an AI pretending to be a journo (is it a child who's a killer), or is it a journo writing about AI (is it a killer targeting children)? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 child) English would prefer killer child instead of child killer for the former because killer can behave as a qualifier. Similarly, AI can act as a qualifier and while sports journalist is valid, any journalist writing about AI code, AI agent, AI whatever must realize what AI journalist sounds like permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago word play is fun permalink fedilink source parent [–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago Not really... “AI journalist” might refer to a plain old astroturfing spambot, or to one piloting a reverse centaur, but it's still the same old spambot when it comes to it, and it'll still be spewing the same worthless slop, so the distinction is mostly moot, merely making the latter option a bit more tragic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] giiicmrp@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 child) I believe it should be spelled "meat proxy" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) I just saw someone call it "cuck coding" (vs "vibe coding"), because you just sit there. This would make meat proxies Code Cucks instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) I just saw someone call it "cuck coding" (vs "vibe coding"), because you just sit there. This would make meat proxies Code Cucks instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago Goddammit you had me there until the /s. 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fonix232@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago (3 children) "AI journalist" is just as confusing as "child killer" Is it an AI pretending to be a journo (is it a child who's a killer), or is it a journo writing about AI (is it a killer targeting children)? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 child) English would prefer killer child instead of child killer for the former because killer can behave as a qualifier. Similarly, AI can act as a qualifier and while sports journalist is valid, any journalist writing about AI code, AI agent, AI whatever must realize what AI journalist sounds like permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago word play is fun permalink fedilink source parent [–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago Not really... “AI journalist” might refer to a plain old astroturfing spambot, or to one piloting a reverse centaur, but it's still the same old spambot when it comes to it, and it'll still be spewing the same worthless slop, so the distinction is mostly moot, merely making the latter option a bit more tragic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 child) English would prefer killer child instead of child killer for the former because killer can behave as a qualifier. Similarly, AI can act as a qualifier and while sports journalist is valid, any journalist writing about AI code, AI agent, AI whatever must realize what AI journalist sounds like permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago word play is fun permalink fedilink source parent
[–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago word play is fun permalink fedilink source parent
[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago Not really... “AI journalist” might refer to a plain old astroturfing spambot, or to one piloting a reverse centaur, but it's still the same old spambot when it comes to it, and it'll still be spewing the same worthless slop, so the distinction is mostly moot, merely making the latter option a bit more tragic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 35 points 1 month ago (8 children) it is a real person, but GPTZero gives it a 100/100, and given she's a proud "prompt engineer" I'm inclined to believe she doesn't do all the writing without... "assistance". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (3 children) This happens when an LLM reads a bunch of pages with stuff it doesn't have much internal knowledge about, and then tries to summarize that into an article. LLMs do not have knowledge about anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online -1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children) Books contain knowledge, I doubt you will find many English scholars that disagree with that. In the same way, LLMs contain knowledge as well, they just also have the ability to output that knowledge in a more dynamic way than a book. You can argue some words that are more anthropomorphic, but knowledge has been attributed to inanimate objects for millennia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child) No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online 0 points 4 weeks ago And books just contain a series of words. You are playing semantics games. An ebook is just a bunch of electrons shoved into a rock. Yet, somehow, it also contains knowledge. In a less abstract way, LLMs giant relational databases that are expressed by using the relationship between previous words to select a word that might follow. It's in the relational graph that the knowledge is stored. The information is there, and the way we've figured out best to get it out is by generating tokens. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (3 children) Not justification for the accusation. Everything is possibly AI slob, that doesn't justify calling everything AI slob. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -5 points 1 month ago (2 children) This comment is ai slop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 child) these downvotes are ai slop permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago You're not wrong. This entire story is not unique in any capacity honestly. The story even points out other developers have tried to fix this issue with problem. The only thing that changed, is that someone saw this time it said "AI", and got a boner thinking about the upvotes and attention they could receive permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (3 children) This happens when an LLM reads a bunch of pages with stuff it doesn't have much internal knowledge about, and then tries to summarize that into an article. LLMs do not have knowledge about anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online -1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children) Books contain knowledge, I doubt you will find many English scholars that disagree with that. In the same way, LLMs contain knowledge as well, they just also have the ability to output that knowledge in a more dynamic way than a book. You can argue some words that are more anthropomorphic, but knowledge has been attributed to inanimate objects for millennia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child) No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online 0 points 4 weeks ago And books just contain a series of words. You are playing semantics games. An ebook is just a bunch of electrons shoved into a rock. Yet, somehow, it also contains knowledge. In a less abstract way, LLMs giant relational databases that are expressed by using the relationship between previous words to select a word that might follow. It's in the relational graph that the knowledge is stored. The information is there, and the way we've figured out best to get it out is by generating tokens. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] greybeard@feddit.online -1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children) Books contain knowledge, I doubt you will find many English scholars that disagree with that. In the same way, LLMs contain knowledge as well, they just also have the ability to output that knowledge in a more dynamic way than a book. You can argue some words that are more anthropomorphic, but knowledge has been attributed to inanimate objects for millennia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child) No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online 0 points 4 weeks ago And books just contain a series of words. You are playing semantics games. An ebook is just a bunch of electrons shoved into a rock. Yet, somehow, it also contains knowledge. In a less abstract way, LLMs giant relational databases that are expressed by using the relationship between previous words to select a word that might follow. It's in the relational graph that the knowledge is stored. The information is there, and the way we've figured out best to get it out is by generating tokens. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child) No, LLMs only contain a bunch of numbers that predict which word is likely to follow the previous ones. Their output resembles knowledge simply because the most likely combination of words is one meant to convey information. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greybeard@feddit.online 0 points 4 weeks ago And books just contain a series of words. You are playing semantics games. An ebook is just a bunch of electrons shoved into a rock. Yet, somehow, it also contains knowledge. In a less abstract way, LLMs giant relational databases that are expressed by using the relationship between previous words to select a word that might follow. It's in the relational graph that the knowledge is stored. The information is there, and the way we've figured out best to get it out is by generating tokens. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] greybeard@feddit.online 0 points 4 weeks ago And books just contain a series of words. You are playing semantics games. An ebook is just a bunch of electrons shoved into a rock. Yet, somehow, it also contains knowledge. In a less abstract way, LLMs giant relational databases that are expressed by using the relationship between previous words to select a word that might follow. It's in the relational graph that the knowledge is stored. The information is there, and the way we've figured out best to get it out is by generating tokens. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (3 children) Not justification for the accusation. Everything is possibly AI slob, that doesn't justify calling everything AI slob. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -5 points 1 month ago (2 children) This comment is ai slop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 child) these downvotes are ai slop permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago You're not wrong. This entire story is not unique in any capacity honestly. The story even points out other developers have tried to fix this issue with problem. The only thing that changed, is that someone saw this time it said "AI", and got a boner thinking about the upvotes and attention they could receive permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -5 points 1 month ago (2 children) This comment is ai slop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 child) these downvotes are ai slop permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago You're not wrong. This entire story is not unique in any capacity honestly. The story even points out other developers have tried to fix this issue with problem. The only thing that changed, is that someone saw this time it said "AI", and got a boner thinking about the upvotes and attention they could receive permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago (1 child) these downvotes are ai slop permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago You're not wrong. This entire story is not unique in any capacity honestly. The story even points out other developers have tried to fix this issue with problem. The only thing that changed, is that someone saw this time it said "AI", and got a boner thinking about the upvotes and attention they could receive permalink fedilink source parent
[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago You're not wrong. This entire story is not unique in any capacity honestly. The story even points out other developers have tried to fix this issue with problem. The only thing that changed, is that someone saw this time it said "AI", and got a boner thinking about the upvotes and attention they could receive permalink fedilink source parent