We can relate in feeling that tech is our home. It's the only place where we get gender and identity validation. It sucks to see it being slowly robbed by us, by the very people who were part of inventing it.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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They're not vibe coding the kernel, did anyone actually read the mail from the LKML?
quite
I feel like all stability in life is gone now that Linus has AI "brainrot"
find out why this sentence is not correct and you'll be fine
Why would i read the thoughts of anyone who isn't anti-AI
Linux isn't anti-AI
'Nuff read
There is a big difference between vibe coding or vibe merging PRs and an expert using it as a development tool.
There's a lot of visceral backlash against AI and I'm sure you'll find your niche again. I can give you my perspective as a translator. What is happening with AI to IT now has happened with MT (machine translation) to the art and business of translation some decades ago, and I was sure totally killed it two years ago, when I suddenly completely ran out of work. Guess what - translation did not die, however good the shitrobot gets at translating it just can't replace a human. Same with art. I've always been doing art - and the more awful, insipid AI shite I see the more I'm encouraged to just do things by hand again, and I realize there are a lot of people who actually appreciate the handmade stuff and hate AI with a passion!
Tldr: I deeply believe this ship is turning around. A lot of people hate AI.
Where to find a new home? You could try communities like smolweb and permacomputing.
Easy to say in hindsight after reading this comment. But we have thought that translation wouldn't be taken by AI for the very simple reason of:
We have done it. We have tried it, we continue to do. Not professionaly, but in our day to day life, and dear god does it require a shit ton of cultural knowledge and context.
See, we've seen a video a long time ago, on why translating is difficult, particularly when idioms are used by speakers and they'd need to be translated by others. Literal translation of the idiom or proverb won't work, you/yall either find a close approximation, or make one on the spot, the latter of which can cause issues, especially when translating political translations.
We believe that if beings only had the fucking 10 minutes it takes to watch a video about beings from industries that are threatened by LLMs, and why LLMs is just garbage and ruining the industry. Like what we did here, we read your/yall's comment, we get another argument why LLMs suck for translation.
Btw, thanks for affirming OP that she will find her niche again. That was nice and kind on your/yall's part
Open source is still much bigger than AI.
Haiku OS has a no-AI policy.
I would say Debian Stable works for most solutions. Debian has a slow enough update cycle that you can make it last for a while before any big changes happen, and even oldstable still gets security updates and backports. (Not sure about oldoldstable.)
If you want to also stay away from Systemd and its madness, there's always Devuan. There might be a way to even stay with X11 in the face of everyone pushing for Wayland. I used to use BunsenLabs (continuation of CrunchBang) because it uses Openbox on X11 and is otherwise based on Debian stable. Their latest full release was in February.
Linux is, and should be, about having the choice to go for something which fits with your needs. Shopping around is always a good idea when you're faced with weirdness. In my case I always just want something that 'just works', and my mess of a custom configured Debian works for me in that respect.
I'm sincerely hoping the AI madness bubble bursts soon... People need to stop destroying things we all rely on just because they can "vibe code" something together.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should," -- Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Jurassic Park (1993)
Debian LTS probably got chu. Not sure wbat else.
This is more freedom oriented and wishful thinking, but
Maybe there are dev groups that use strictly open weights only that might make you feel less bad than most AI.
Noted. ty
im pretty out of the loop, did he really drink the coolaid? if so that really sucks. i kind of assumed he took the position of "yeah sure use ai tools but the burden of verification is still on the developer and reviewer" or whatever the terms are for their dev process. like using ai tools doesnt absolve anyone of checking their work and not just submitting unreviewed slop and dumping the entire burden on the reviewer. that shit should get you removed from a project. still sucks if hes even dismissively ok with ai tools because theyre fucking garbage and waste more time than they save.
i kind of assumed he took the position of “yeah sure use ai tools but the burden of verification is still on the developer and reviewer
That's exactly his position. But the OP doesn't like that Linus uses LLM as a tool. It's weird because 50 years ago syntax checkers were AI because it was language processing.
We are completely with you in this, it is frustrating and aggravating.