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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
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I seriously love that guy. Sounds like a good troll.
And to top it all off, he even used it in an ethical and license compliant way. He didn't generate code. He understood every character. He even fixed a bug instead of introducing new error prone code.
That guy is a God and I wish him a long and prosperous life 🖖
Yeah, he’s such a cool guy when he isn’t being a total asshole. Complicated character…
Not quite an asshole. Competence only looks like arrogance from below. He's actually quite nice and friendly in person. He just has a no bullshit attitude, which is especially jarring for Americans, who always wrap their criticism in several layers of glazing.
According to Linus himself, he used to be an asshole. He literally took time off to address it.
post-therapy-linus has been a really fun era to come into linux imo
And that is something I can respect.