I would trust Linus Torvalds to use AI to do this because the AI is literally trying to copy him when it writes that code. In that context, he is the training data.
But Bart, maybe you’d like a new hobby? Think of all the glory. People
stopping you in the streets, asking you whether you’re the sparse
maintainer and asking for selfies.
You won’t be a rock star or an astronaut (or a fireman, or a dinosaur,
or whatever you dreamt of being when you were a wee tyke), but it’s
the closest us geeks will ever get.
Well, the tool apparently fought him and “several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.”
And it also doesn’t look like the LLM actually added code so much as helped with debug code and analysis, however exactly that may have looked like. The resulting fix changes three lines of code, very much human-writable or -verifiable.
Also, let’s not worship Linus. The guy has done much good and is brilliant, but he’s still human, still capable of making mistakes. This instance working out well deserves the proper appreciation, bu we still ought to be wary.
I would trust Linus Torvalds to use AI to do this because the AI is literally trying to copy him when it writes that code. In that context, he is the training data.
He’s not writing much of anything at all anymore, he is copy pasting emails to
git am.I especially like his most recent use of LLMs.
Specifically as a threat to induce someone else to step up as a maintainer of the debug tool sparse.
Great stuff, especially this part:
Well, the tool apparently fought him and “several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.”
And it also doesn’t look like the LLM actually added code so much as helped with debug code and analysis, however exactly that may have looked like. The resulting fix changes three lines of code, very much human-writable or -verifiable.
Also, let’s not worship Linus. The guy has done much good and is brilliant, but he’s still human, still capable of making mistakes. This instance working out well deserves the proper appreciation, bu we still ought to be wary.