alt Hacker News> We're all Linus Torvalds now.
So...where's your OS and SCM?
I get your point that wetware stills matter, but I think it's a bit much to contend that more than a handful of people (or everyone) is on the level of Linus Torvalds now that we have LLMs.
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fragmede • today at 8:50 AM
My hair hasn't turned blonde and I don't suddenly know how to speak Finnish, either.
You might have missed their point.
I should have been clearer. It was a pun, a take, a joke. I was referring to his day-to-day activity now, where he merges code, doesn't write hardly any code for the linux kernel.
I didn't imply most of use can do half the thing he's done. That's not right.