But all AI output is slop. It’s social spam. That’s what it’s for. It’s slop! Say “slop” every time

This writing is far, far too emotional to be considered anything but an opinion piece

That is not what slop means. It's not ai slop if the developers understand the code and know exactly what they doing, audit everything.

Oh, this asshole again. They write like a twitter thread, and with about as much depth.

Linus is saying that using an LLM doesn't absolve you of taking responsibility for what you publish.

I am extremely anti-LLM for basically everything but even I can see this moral panic for what it is. Sadly not the first time David Gerard (the author of this blog) has fallen into it.

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You know how we call AI output "slop" because it's low-effort and kinda generic? Yeah.

Actually, I just discovered, the person who wrote this bullshit article is the first to submit it in the crosspost.

And he's banning people from the community who ask questions about it.. Or point out it's bad info lol, so, it seems obvious its more about attention than proper journalism

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Why are you banning people who dispute your claims. Everyone should be downvoting the cross posted article with a passion. He's running a dictatorship (basically seems like another "madthumbs")

For anyone who wants to see how comprehensive the oversight is on Kernel development: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html

But yeah, patches don't go straight to Linus or straight to master, and, it certainly doesn't get approved automatically by an LLM or anything like that. If you're lucky after the initial reviews, they almost certainly go to other testing trees first (and generally multiple). Then you also have staging branches, etc.

Lmao at this completely misguided comment.

Torvalds’s first publicly released chatbot code was in January this year, when he vibe-coded a project in Python because he didn’t know enough Python. The programming language kids learn in high school. The guy who runs the kernel couldn’t get his head around Python.

Linus would run circles around whoever wrote this article. Ever hear of "domain knowledge"? It's perfectly reasonable to expect an old school engineer well-versed in low level code like C to see high level scripting languages like python as fairly alien.

… If you are a competent developer, he said, an LLM makes a great tool, but only after that effort has been put in to set it up. He resisted suggestions to post his LLM-training materials, saying that each developer needs to go through that process separately.

This is the vibe-code-two-step. "AI" is useful because it helps inexperienced users to code. But you also have to be an expert to use it properly.

You do realize that all code for the kernel is code reviewed and tested by so many people right? The patches are probably some of the most human reviewed code on the planet....

This feels like the time when every armchair expert became experts on immunology...