space_comrade [he/him]

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Cake day: November 11th, 2020

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  • In high profile projects like the Linux kernel, probably yeah but I think people are vastly overstating the quality of the code the average developer writes and also their overall knowledge and skill level, I’ve seen some shit early in my career where looking back on it now I wish I was reading AI slop, and this was software that earned millions a year.

    Fact is a lot of important code that a lot of people depended on has always been kinda shit and yet it worked because there was enough manpower to keep it clanking on.


  • I think this article is quite a bit ungenerous of what Torvalds actually said. The only gross part here is him taking money from Meta but that’s probably not the first time he accepted big corpo money, his actual stance is IMO more reasonable than what this article portrays it to be, basically he said trusted maintainers should deprioritize new contributors that are likely to be LLM slop.

    That said he really should be even more conservative in his approach here, even the current amount of LLM patches to the kernel are sketchy enough, he should consider at least a temporary moratorium on LLM patches. The kernel is not some random ass app where it doesn’t matter if it gets broken for a while due to LLM usage.