alt Hacker News"Torvalds' remarks contrast with recent comments from fellow kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who recently told The Register that AI has become an increasingly useful tool for the FOSS community."
Does it? Both points can be true at the same time.
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I will argue that ON AVERAGE, humans are lazy, and will use LLMs to generate walls of text and code. We like the easy way out - just pop a pill. Here we have a technology that can finally help us manage the crippling firehose of data, and instead, we are going to make it much worse. As expected.
A few of us will actually use these tools to reduce toil and achieve something useful.
Torvalds didn't say AI isn't useful. He is saying everybody use AI to file same duplicate bug report causing extra churn.
AI can amplify your intelligence just as easily as it can amplify your stupidity. All while telling you how smart and brilliant you are.
I mean, they are two (of many) contrasting results of AI. The writer didn't say "contradict". But I agree they probably could have chosen better wording.
Linus also said
“AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work,” he wrote. “Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience.”
So I think the closing remark from the register isn’t really appropriate given the context from the quotes they pulled.