Wonderful. Linus Torvalds says that AI is a useful tool, no questions about it, and that anybody who says the opposite has not used it. Even if they did.
How many anti AI people you think work at a place where they're forced to burn tokens because "AI is the greatest thing ever"?
He says that you either accept it, or do the impossible and fork the whole thing. Maybe in the future we will be using FreeBSD. At this rate anything is possible, maybe even going back to Winblows, if I'm going to use AI slop generated software I might as well.
Since Linus is no longer writing code and he's just a maintainer, he'd do well in stepping down and letting people who clearly has a better idea on how to maintain the kernel than he does do the job instead. He can retire and live off of his AI stocks until the market crash if he wants. And have the AI write another Python script for him.
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@enigmatico He didn't force you to use it. He just allowed it.
And for valid reasons mind you.
Bugs in the kernel could genuinely kill and lead to irreperable harm.
Larping ethics won't stop the malicious actors from using it to find the same bugs, that as you can see are plenty.
Also, as was stated, there is no technical merit to prohibiting it.
Love it or hate it, it's here to stay, and it's consequences will befall all.
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