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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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As GP said: using AI to do a better job than was possible before is the real value.
It's like they used to say back in the 80s: to really foul things up you need to use a computer, and it's very true that both computers and AI magnify the opportunity to screw up in newer bigger more spectacular ways. AI also gives the opportunity to make a bunch of banal clip-art sideways printed banners - and those were cool for about 15 seconds back when you first saw them, just like the walking cats videos.
So, you can ignore AI, probably for 5-10 years in most jobs it applies to, before "reality" hits and they just can't use people who don't know how to use it (properly, for more than cat videos) anymore. You can take up basket weaving, sit at a booth at your local arts markets selling baskets - no AI required - or... you can figure out how to use it properly. Sort of like computers in the 80s, there aren't a lot of valuable guides out there, it's very new and changing ridiculously fast - if you're going to master it, you're probably going to have to dive in and figure it out for yourself, or join the 2nd wave of adopters who "wait for the training" and do the cookie cutter jobs with it.
The future is hard to see, always moving, but the scarier part about AI vs "the computer" is that AI can do a lot of the obvious stuff already: "take a memo", "look this up on Google", "make a list of all people who match these criteria..." in the computer you still needed a keyboard and mouse jockey, with AI... I'm not sure what 2nd wave adopter jobs will be out there in quantity.