This is misleading, he’s talking about code review tools not vibecoding…
Nowhere in the title or the article is vibe coding mentioned.
That’s the point.
Being slightly more useful isn’t the only problem AI needs to solve. What about morality issue? Sure, slavery is very useful, but some of you, including me, ban Nestlé products. Why do you not have the same standard with products that are produced by, or assisted in production with AI?
The titel is clickbaitish. It’s good that Linus is open to new things and updates his views. As pointed out by the article he is no ai evangelist, but rather pragmatic.
But “90% marketing” and AI being useful isn’t mutually exclusive.
I’d say AI is even 95% marketing but I still use it for the other 5%, where it’s actually useful. It’s just waaaaaay too expensive for the 5% use case usually.
I’d go for smaller, more specialised models instead of trying to fit everything in a broadly incompetent jack of all trades, master of none type of LLM like they’re currently doing.
like preferably a model only trained on one language kind of idea?
Supposedly that makes them dumber in general
For a person I could understand. Now I need to go bother another code monkey I know that is specialized in ML.
It’s something to do with improving the reasoning capabilities, because there are more patterns in the weights that it can activate against
I’m not trying to defend him, but it seems like he was moreso saying linux will never be a reactionary tool of principle. It seems more like an admittance that the AI is here to stay and theres little point in trying to pivot everything to reverse an unstoppable trend?
Linux has always been a tool of principle, and has long been an anomaly in what was the ‘unstoppable trend’ of monetizing usable software.
I’m not trying to defend him
Defend him from what?
