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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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LLMs suck at writing code, but they are absolutely amazing at reading code and finding bugs. I am firmly against the usage of LLMs to write anything, but they have a place as a diagnostics tool when verified by a human.
There are already several large projects that have hundreds of thousands of users and those projects were almost completely vibe coded. It's almost the entire retro "recomp" scene now.
I have done several smaller projects with it, and they have been stable / performant for months - better than similar stuff I coded years earlier and spent 5-10x the effort on.