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In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding.

Over the winter holidays, Linus Torvalds routinely works on new hobbies and the like. Last year he started creating his own guitar pedals as a hobby. Or as he put it back in the Linux 6.13-rc7 announcement, "LEGO for grown-ups with a soldering iron."

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's absolutely a fair comparison. An LLM can't use any more than 100% of the system resources. neither can a video game. for an individual, there's no practical difference between being an avid gamer and someone who uses LLMs if you're comparing environmental impact.

if you don't agree, then perhaps you could explain to me how using 100% of my GPU for an LLM is different than using 100% of my GPU for Cyberpunk 2077? both use cases are using the same amount of power, so how is one use worse for the environment than the other? especially since I might use an LLM for a few minutes of work, whereas I've had many, many days where I spend 8 hours or more gaming. surely my gaming causes far more damage to the environment than my using LLMs does, but perhaps you're more educated on the matter than I am and can show me otherwise.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you talking about self hosted LLMs or commercial ones, like ChatGPT?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 days ago

self hosted. I don't use anything from a corporation that I don't absolutely have to.