this is the one and only reason that the Linux kernel is going out of its way to hide which commits are LLM generated by abolishing the Assisted-By tag, simultaneously with torvalds fully slopcoding a core “improvement” to the kernel’s memory management

if you don’t believe me, here’s part of what the diff removed from the kernel’s docs:

> -When AI tools contribute to kernel development, proper attribution
> -helps track the evolving role of AI in the development process.
> -Contributions should include an Assisted-by tag in the following format::

and surprise, here’s the dickheads responsible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Kernel_Developers_Summit a set of people who get money and tokens from Anthropic, OpenAI, and a bunch of other AI corps via the Linux Foundation

don’t you love when the paid heads of a community project meet behind closed doors to do something that damages the community? https://furs.social/@Rycochet/117438960055913573

I’m pushing this reply to top level because it’s extremely important: https://is.badat.dev/objects/a142a17d-9320-4007-bef4-99762f9fa854

> I asked whether that risked cutting off bright new developers that we would rather hang onto; Torvalds answered that the kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world.
> [...]
> Torvalds added that he does not want to scare off people who want to write code; his message is that you have to either put in the effort to learn, or put a lot of money into an LLM to participate.

Linus Torvalds prefers if you can’t contribute to the kernel without pouring money into tokens for Claude Code

if you don’t pay a shit ton of money for tokens, you aren’t a serious developer according to him

the “learn” thing here is a distraction: in this context, you’ll be learning to clean up slop until you either burn out (very quickly at that) or pay for tokens and cognitively surrender to the bot

that’s the learning path now

LWN link for anyone who can’t access the link to that post (but it’s in my replies): https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/be20382b54a9b4cd/

e: subscriber link posted, thank you @techokami!

oh cool and the LWN link about the invite only maintainers summit where Torvalds went full mask off is itself subscriber-only!

we’re fucking cooked aren’t we

come back on the 22nd for exclusive content about how fucked over we got I guess?

@zzt merry shitscram https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/be20382b54a9b4cd/

@techokami @zzt

Why bother, he asked, to search for all of the call sites of a function he has just modified, when the tool can fix them all automatically?

this has been a common feature of IDEs for well over a decade

@clayote @techokami @zzt couldn’t ctags do that decades ago?

@Colman @clayote @techokami @zzt THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

@zzt @clayote @hipsterelectron @Colman @techokami me when I learn about LSPs for the first time (seriously it's so useful I spent way too long doing stuff like this manually but it's invaluable in languages like Python especially

@Lunaphied @zzt @clayote @Colman @techokami my emacs package makes ripgrep matches editable and it is strictly more powerful and useful in every possible way along with not tying me to a specific compiler or build system and even working for projects i don't have to build in advance as a result

@hipsterelectron @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami damn, fuck, that sounds excellent. I really like editable matching as an interface but the only emacs package I knew that did it was really barebones and a bit slow

@zzt @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami 100 stars on github somehow although the byte compiler is weird about my macro bullshit sometimes lmk if you want any features or shit breaks https://codeberg.org/cosmicexplorer/helm-rg i used to recommend deadgrep by wilfred hughes which was a really thoughtful bit of UI i was too lazy to do better than but he's a slopper now. if you can convince me to work on this again i would feel better about actually defeating him in the marketplace of ideas though

@hipsterelectron @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami that’s so cool! is this available to me if I’m using vertico instead of helm?

@zzt @Lunaphied @clayote @Colman @techokami if you mean vertico for general completion then yes, it will pull in helm as a library and use it for the UI but that won't infect anything else. tbh i'm incredibly pissed off at helm after they tried to tell MELPA to delist my package since they made one themselves. thierry volpiatto can fite me irl