In addition to Linus Torvalds’ recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding.
Over the winter holidays, Linus Torvalds routinely works on new hobbies and the like. Last year he started creating his own guitar pedals as a hobby. Or as he put it back in the Linux 6.13-rc7 announcement, “LEGO for grown-ups with a soldering iron.”
Its also generally stupid for any well respecting practitioner of a trade to just disregard a new tool because its new and different.
You at least try it, learn about it, use it. If it doesn’t work you set it down and watch it. Someone else may find a use case for it.
AI is in that spot right now, despite the over push from the corpos into everything. Ai does have a number of use cases that arn’t bad not great either to be fair. And the tool IS improving every few months.
If you can pull your own dick out of your ass for long enough to be pragmatic its pretty easy to tell that while Ai wont ever live up to its hype it will find a good place in most peoples work flow at SOME level. Its unlikely that Ai will reach a level where it will EVER be safe to deploy for a project as high profile as the kernel. Least not Ai as we currently think of it. But for a hobby project to rough out some jank code and boot strap a projects proof of concept? Its honestly good enough for that already.
(general you, not you in particular coyote)
But it’s perfectly reasonable to disregard a tool for ethical reasons, of which there are many
As long as its a local instance then everything should be fine.
That is a major improvement but it doesn’t alleviate concerns of being trained on copyleft code, which I take seriously.
Linus is also trained on that code
I was trained on Stack Overflow, OBVIOUSLY
Maybe take your own advice? If the best case scenario is still a tool with high enough failure rate it can’t actually be trusted, then your tool might just be hallucinations from huffing your own farts.
Well at least you get a bit of it.