alt Hacker NewsExcept that Linus does basically zero programming these days. He's a manager, combining code from the subsystem managers below him into a final release.
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conradfr • yesterday at 11:55 PM
That's wrong, he is coding, well, vibecoding.
Except that Linus does basically zero programming these days. He's a manager, combining code from the subsystem managers below him into a final release.
That's wrong, he is coding, well, vibecoding.
Right, but Linus also has an extremely refined mental model of the project he maintains, and has built up a lot of skills reading code.
Most engineers in my experience are much less skillful at reading code than writing code. What I’ve seen so far with use of LLM tools is a bunch of minimally edited LLM produced content that was not properly critiqued.