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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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Every Linus AI headline for the last year: "AI is the future, adapt or die, if you hate AI leave Linux."
Every actual Linus quotation from those articles: "AI can be a powerful tool in the hands of experienced human programmers that are still responsible for every line of code they push."
- Linus Torvalds
Ya, I was a terrible developer before, now I'm still terrible but faster. LOL
just think about how much more damage you can do with a gun vs your fist
ai is an icbm
These are the most dangerous developers..
I will never use AI unless I am paid to like I currently am. I am not a worse developer for it. I have been learning software engineering continuously my entire life. I am completely self taught for over a decade professionally and longer than that in my free time. I have no university degree. I grew up in poverty in nowheresville Kentucky.
I don't need an LLM to learn or succeed. LLMs literally need people like me. I am sad Linus cant see it that way, but never meet your heroes so they say. l
I'm not sure you understood. That quote is defending against AI haters
No I think that quote is attacking AI haters. Hes saying the people who say ai code has issues should look in the mirror because so does theirs.
That's what I said. AI haters are attacking, and he was defending against them, telling them to look in a mirror
Oh I misread sorry
Facts. How good you are as a developer. Ai is a really useful tool. Especially the latest frontier models. I don't like the companies behind them. But the models are very powerful.
because people with an agenda are seeing:
then try to combine those while leaving out the specific details so people come to their own conclusions based on emotional reaction in the hopes that linux users will turn away from linux or even change their views on ai the same way maga fucks change their views on epstein
or maybe its just an every day well intentioned headline like everything else