Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

lists.debian.org/debian-project/…/msg00041.html

www.xda-developers.com/linus-used-ai-bug-llm-critics-face-choice/

I’m glad Linus is pragmatic about this, ethical questions aside LLM’s are a highly valuable tool in software development and they are likely to continue to improve. Any engineer fighting the use of LLM’s will ultimately find that their peers are achieving more in a shorter time then they are. Open weight LLM’s have also come a long way and are already good enough for daily use.

ethical questions aside

And his here is the problem. Oh yeah lets just waive off the biggest critisicm on and issue of AI.

Hitler was a pretty neat guy, ethnic cleansing aside.

And before you say this, no, i am not comparing you to hitler, I’m only using an over the top example to hopefully make my point more clear.

I think the better analogy is, the advances in rocketry made under hitler were pretty neat and just because Hitler was an evil guy who did evil shit doesn’t mean we should have thrown that away. By all means stop giving money and influence to the big AI companies, but the advances made can still be repurposed.

The main difference is that rockets are expressly for the purpose of murdering people, so I would argue that the research shouldn’t be continued or done at all.

Fortunately I’m pretty sure that people developing these computer programs are serious about trying not to murder people - even if just for legal reasons.