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/

not to be an AI bootlicker, but i don’t get why people treat AI-generated code like it’s the Plague 2. it’s not; all code is constrained by the programming language, and so it either implements the feature correctly… or it doesn’t. yes, human review is undeniably important, but other than that, AI-generated code and human code is still all logic at the end of the day

because it’s a perfect storm. The way it’s being managed by businesses is causing :

• Layoffs
• RAM shortages
• Propaganda
• Environmental problems

So, the tool is getting a bad rep. never mind that for over a decade, machine learning was something that was tinkered away and thought of as “one day this is going to be amazing”, now it’s being wielded by assholes trying to be TRILLIONAIRES and people are losing their jobs, access to technology, political and environmental collapse.

To top it off, before you could contextualise ML in statistics and say “it’s a work in progress, some things are not quite right” but now you have ads saying “Replace your humans with our AI/Robots” as if it’s 100% reliable, a drop in replacement and not going to provide any social ills.