It's sad to see Linus inspire thousands of aspiring coders to now learn the wrong lessons, because that's absolutely what will happen. Anyone trying to learn to code right now is proper fucked.

Linus' knowledge and other maintainers knowledge will likely die with him now because shortcuts are inevitable and people will understand less and less the more they offload.

We keep seeing this repeated, literally hundreds of times in just the past year alone. Code bases are shit, people who maintained them either fucked, or worse started vibe coding, and the LLM yes man machine isn't gonna not blow smoke up Torvalds ass just because he is Linus.

I understand your points, and I agree with most of it.

It's just, this feels like someone has a heroin addiction, and our solution is to get them hooked on alcohol.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also agree with your points on ethics and the knowledge shrinking. But I can't think of a sane route. Not using AI in the current state will leave the kernel behind (at least in security matters which is obvious), and using it will degrade the quality of the software itself, and its community.

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well, shit. I appreciate the conversation at least!