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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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because it's a perfect storm. The way it's being managed by businesses is causing :
So, the tool is getting a bad rep. never mind that for over a decade, machine learning was something that was tinkered away and thought of as "one day this is going to be amazing", now it's being wielded by assholes trying to be TRILLIONAIRES and people are losing their jobs, access to technology, political and environmental collapse.
To top it off, before you could contextualise ML in statistics and say "it's a work in progress, some things are not quite right" but now you have ads saying "Replace your humans with our AI/Robots" as if it's 100% reliable, a drop in replacement and not going to provide any social ills.
Exactly. The concept of an LLM is perfectly fine, we've had its precursors like markov chains and neural nets for decades, the issue is how their being created and used these days, particularly the scale of it. LLMs are the shiny new toy the way blockchains were previously, so all the tech bros and utterly clueless CEOs are rushing out to embrace the hot new thing and demand it be shoved into every nook and crany because they think if they don't they might not make every last cent they possibly might.