A report just in from the Kernel Maintainers Summit on 8 October reveals just how full AI slop the Linux kernel project has gone. And so has project leader Linus Torvalds.
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A report just in from the Kernel Maintainers Summit on 8 October reveals just how full AI slop the Linux kernel project has gone. And so has project leader Linus Torvalds.
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I switched to Linux many years ago, but now I am a bit worried which path it will take.
Jesus the pearl clutching and over reacting in here is ridiculous.
Exactly what do you think is going to happen that is so horrible?
Some of it for me at least is moral. They stole all our data to create this shit and are selling it back to us, it’s destroying the planet and communities near these stupid data centers, it’s constantly being used and pushed to further human suffering, surveillance, pricing, war and death etc. I really want no part in it, but that’s becoming increasingly difficult.
Then on top of that, it hallucinates and lies. Chances for bugs or things getting snuck in increase. Since people didn’t write the code, they don’t understand it, so maintainability goes down.
This is called a “self correcting problem”. If it doesn’t work people will correct by either “not using it” or “learning to use it more effectively”.
Do you think everyone is just going to throw their hands up and be like “well the ai done fucked up again, what’re you gonna do?”
Windows and I’m sure apple’s path are already there, but being Linux means this is fully public. I hope Linus and the rest of the developers who are starting to lean on LLMs take a good look inwards.