So many people in the comments (of the linked site) butthurt over this decision. Ai generated code is just bad, bro. Nobody wants a program coded by someone who doesn’t understand the output.
Well, it’s Hacker News. A place run by Mark Andreesen and has huge incentives, especially on the personal level, to worship AI.
I’m surprised by the comments that are smart enough to push back against the corporate line.
A place run by Mark Andreesen and has huge incentives, especially on the personal level, to worship AI.
If I ever post a comment there, I’ll make sure I throw in an em-dash or two so I can get some free upvotes.
Yeah, hacker news aggregates great topics but the comment section is like YouTube comments but for people with PhDs.
I’m really glad to hear that.
Funny that the top comment is a pro AI guy trying to cancel the people who are criticizing it for not being part of the project, when AI by definition does not give care about, or understand, any code it creates.
Meanwhile discord has shitloads if ai code but that doesn’t matter I guess
To me this is just people virtue signaling and putting unreasonable demands on small open source projects
Yeah, I don’t know why so many projects cave the bitching of morons on the internet.
Gods. The second I saw that Torvalds used an LLM to generate any amount of code I knew people would be annoying as shit about it. And here we are with people being annoying as shit about it.
Maybe you should try to learn what value Torvalds sees in it then and be a little less knee jerk about it
Yeah, because it’s nuanced and people suck at nuance.
And his take is reasonable, I think. Use it for unimportant shit that would otherwise waste your time.
To me, it makes sense for things that are simple to review, have clear, binary acceptance criteria, and little to no meaningful attack surface or dangerous failure modes. If you are trying to make an AI develop a bulletproof filesystem device driver or network stack you’re a fucking maniac and should be pilloried in the town square. If you want to throw an AI-generated github actions build script at me that’s perfectly fine and once I’ve reviewed it thoroughly it doesn’t bother me one bit if it’s AI-generated.
It’s an assistant, not a replacement.
A programmer who never uses AI is just as stupid as a programmer who never uses search engines.
Where in my comment did I mention my stance on LLM usage? All I said was I knew people would be annoying about Torvalds using LLMs to generate code, and that there was an instance of that here.
Next time you need to go the doctor ask your AI instead please.
Transparency increases trust, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.
That’s quite nice, I’ve got to say.
There was very little LLM-generated code in the first place, AFAIK it was just a couple pieces of build tooling?
