Post by @stsquad@lemmy.ml

2026-10-12 16:15 UTC

The reactions to this have been pretty hysterical considering this is an experimental branch on his own repository. I’m not surprised he might experiment with using AI agents to solve a particular pain point to see how it does. This is using agents to experiment with things that you might not have time to address normally. Another recent example is the build system where the author said: An LLM was used to first determine where the bottlenecks were then to figure out how to improve them. It generated a lot of code, much of it hideous. I extensively audited and rewrote a lot of it, and heavily edited commit messages, the cover letter and comments. off-loading the boring grunt work of identifying bottle necks and trying new approaches seems like an ideal task for a junior agent to deal with as long is you don’t YOLO the result to the lists for other humans to de-slopify for you.

Replies (5)

@companero@hexbear.net 2026-10-12 17:19

It’s a slippery slope. So far Linus has gone from using it to find bugs, to using it as a programming assistant, and now ostensibly to vibecode entire features. Where will it end? Will Linus shut off external contributions and let the agents loose like Bun did? That would be a tragedy in my book.

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@Serinus@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 17:36

as long is you don’t YOLO the result to the lists for other humans to de-slopify for you. (Or not de-slopify at all.) There’s literally no one I trust more to handle llm code more than Linus. He’s not going to pass off shit in his name. He’ll use it in the best possible way. Lots of reasons to be anti-AI, but it’s not all black and white. It’s here to stay and it’s useful. (But we ain’t gonna spend 400 billion a year on it.)

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@TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 18:00

People cannot seem to grasp that there is a difference in using LLMs to experiment and just blindly using code written by an LLM. You’d think they would realize Linus is never going to do the latter. Binary thinking leads to this…

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@victorz@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 18:23

For me, there’s more to it than just the output. But I’m sure Linus won’t let his mind rot in LLM. Yet. Still… Lots of reasons to object to using AI at all. Use a computer responsibly, folks.

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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-10-12 16:54

The reactions to this have been pretty hysterical i FULLY expected more hate. lol

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