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Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters (www.theregister.com)

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Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.

Torvalds was interviewed by Dirk Hohndel, head of open source at Verizon, at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul, South Korea, earlier this month.

Torvalds is technical lead and maintainer of the Linux kernel, but said that "for the last almost 20 years, I've not been a programmer." As for Git, which he invented, "I really just look at it from the side."

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 143 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Pretty reasonable take IMO

I can see how it can be a useful tool to get people into dev

You need to back that up with real learning though

If you can't/don't review and completely understand every line of code you submit to a project yourself, you should not be surprised if the project owner tells you to take a long walk towards the Mariana trench

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I been vibe coding a Discord bot to teach myself Python. I'm finally good enough to get frustrated with the code the Ai gives me sometimes and do it myself.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

good enough to get frustrated with the code the Ai gives me sometimes and do it myself.

Good work. That's a solid junior level understanding of code.

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