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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Maybe it did, but apparently the code was not properly reviewed initially, so there could be other hidden problems.
    Of course that’s the same for human made code, but there’s a problem in only judging code from how it performs, and not actually understanding the code. And that seems to be the situation with a lot of AI code.

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      5 hours ago

      And particularly disturbing when the human understanding failure is from the original and lead Linux developer.

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        8 minutes ago

        100% that is the worst place to have the problem originate.
        I have rarely disagreed with Linus Torvalds, and maybe I’m wrong, but I strongly disagree with him on this issue. Contributing code nobody understands cannot be a good thing.

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        Is it an understanding failure, an unexpected interaction, or just an existing issue now exposed? A 23x performance increase could very well expose an existing race condition that systems weren’t fast enough to run into.

        People make mistakes. Software bugs existing at all is proof of this. This is certainly not the first time a change Torvalds approved has an issue, and it won’t be the last.

        There’s a reason code is reviewed, and there’s a reason people still go through after it is approved and verify. The process is working exactly as designed, the way it has for decades before AI coding.

        Expecting absolute perfection is ridiculous, the anti-AI circlejerk acting like only AI fucks up just makes them look ridiculous. Any developer could have developed this fix, and there would be no article. Nothing in this issue is specific to AI usage and treating it like it is somehow special just undermines arguments against AI slop and vibe coding in general.

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          27 minutes ago

          the anti-AI circlejerk

          I’d say do better but that’s not likely to happen.

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      3 hours ago

      So, let me get this right. You’re disapproving on how things were handled based on your speculation of how it went?

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        13 minutes ago

        Not based on speculation, based on numerous analysis of the problems with using AI code you don’t understand.
        Clearly Linus failed to understand the code, otherwise he wouldn’t have suggested it for submission.

        You seem to have a problem with criticism of Linus, is it a religious thing?