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.”

  • Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it
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    7 hours ago

    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.