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/

Oh, please… is it still a text generator, or is it already a religion?

I’m just a movement generator.

Saying “it’s a text generator” cannot be the full force of your criticism, if the text it generates is incredibly useful. What could AI be on a screen if not a text generator?

Your views have got to be formed by WHAT text is generated given that AI cannot express itself through any other channel than text.

If you can give AI a deeply complex code base and ask it to find the likely cause of an obscure bug, and the solution is right, then you’ll have to acknowledge that some form of reasoning is going on, no?

And given that no other system has previously enabled this form of reasoning, it seems a shame to judge AI on semantics, rather than usefulness.

You are on Lemmy so defending AI use will net you down votes. I am an anti-AI person, practically, but you make a very fair and objective point. 👍 I up vote you, not because I agree with AI use but because this is a proper point to make in a proper discussion, which is what this place should be about.

Kudos.

Yes AI is definitely a topic that seems to have a fairly united front. I’ve worked in software engineering for 25+ years and I can see the impact AI has on our discipline. So it’s not like I’m hailing it to be an all-positive force - I just think “all it does is generate text” is a weird, flat form of criticism.