• ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Everyone dooming here, but he literally just said that AIs are finding lots of glitches in old code, and that for that reason updates are getting bigger. Linus is NOT vibe coding linux.

    And recently ground breaking privillege escalation glitches were found and fixed because of a LLM.

    Of course we dont want shitty code from LLMs, but if they find important glitches and vulnerabilities, we obviously need to use them.

    Fixed: replaced mistyped Ws with Es

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      I’m not against AI in general. I’m just against using it stupidly. And against using it as a vehicle for further monopolisation and centralisation of power. I’m against the “use more AI” slogan too many companies push.

      But use it for specific purposes under human control that improve quality, then I’m all for it.

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        I don’t think many people are against the existence of LLM-based AI in general, just the way it’s being pushed currently.

        In the hands of highly experienced and skilled people it can be very valuable - the issue is that it generally isn’t. Personally I think Linus has demonstrated that he’s more than capable of using it intelligently and responsibly.

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          I’d have to disagree with you that an outsized number of uneducated hivemind morons are against AI in any capacity.

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            This seems like an over generalization and less likely than the uneducated hivemind of morons actually being in favor of AI

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      Linus doesn’t really code anymore so the question is are others vibe coding Linux and I would say yes it is happening.

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      3 days ago

      lemmings must be doomers, the only explanation seems to be intellectual diversity

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      …and 99.9% of what it identifies as errors either aren’t, or are so minor they’re irrelevant. And “fixing” them breaks piles of other code.

      Projects that hasd no more than a dozen requests a year are now getting swamped with hundreds of requests a day. People in the third world are using agents to generate thousands of broken, garbage “patches” to claim money.

      But why would Torvalds give a shit hey ? He can fuck over those people just like he did with C++ developers.

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        I would also be afraid of this. How valid are the results of the LLMs? I sure there must be quite a few AI found exploits but the severity or legitimacy of all the returned AI evaluations and fixes can’t possibly have a uniform quality.