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TZubiriyesterday at 6:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

Nowadays not just big orgs are falling into the delusion, but also big people.

When Linus posted that AIs and vibecoding were here to stay and declared resistance to it as harmful, I stopped to consider whether I was wrong, but it has made me realize that in retrospect Linus Torvalds and Linux itself aren't actually the holy grail of computing. I didn't feel that way with Richard Dawkins, its not like falling for an AI psychosis retroactively made me question The Selfish Gene, but now I'm looking at linux and the theory that it's a clusterfuck is gaining so much traction, especially after copy.fail and ensuing rustification, I see so much clearly now. It was never about linux, UNIX sure, POSIX, yeah, GNU fucking aye, kernel? Ok whatever, drivers and scheduler with a gajillion lines of code I guess.


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sudobash1yesterday at 7:49 PM

When did he post that "vibecoding" was here to stay? He is allowing AI generated code, and AI linting tooling in kernel development, but importantly, the expectation of human responsibility and review remains. This seems a far cry from vibecoding.

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