Torvalds: "100% of Their Code Is Written by Compilers" Too
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Torvalds: "100% of Their Code Is Written by Compilers" Too. The Linux creator argued that AI-written code claims are misleading — and warned that a wave of low-quality, AI-generated bug reports is quietly burning out the maintainers who keep open source running.

At the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit, the Linux creator argued that AI-written code claims are misleading — and warned that a wave of low-quality, AI-generated bug reports is quietly burning out the maintainers who keep open source running.

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Speaking on stage, Torvalds said the framing misses an obvious historical parallel. Compilers have translated essentially all shipped source code into machine code for decades, he noted, yet no engineer describes their software as “compiler-written.” AI, in his view, belongs in the same category — a powerful productivity layer sitting on top of human design and understanding, not a replacement for it.

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Torvalds was careful to frame this as a correction of language rather than a rejection of the technology itself.

    You “paraphrased” into oblivion the very thing Mr. Torvalds was trying to be careful about, contorting it into click bait rather than the nuance that he and the article are trying to get across.

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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      6 hours ago

      From the article:

      Speaking on stage, Torvalds said the framing misses an obvious historical parallel. Compilers have translated essentially all shipped source code into machine code for decades, he noted, yet no engineer describes their software as “compiler-written.” AI, in his view, belongs in the same category — a powerful productivity layer sitting on top of human design and understanding, not a replacement for it.Linux & Unix

      “When I see people saying, ‘Hey, 99% of our code is written by AI,’ I literally get angry, because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — that 100% of their code is written by compilers.”