OK, everyone needs to chill the fuck out.
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AI isn't going away. Sorry to tell you. It's been in the #
Linux kernel for as long as AI-generated code has existed.
AI also is not entirely corporate. In fact, that was #
Linus whole point, because this is not his first time speaking up on this matter.
Coding with AI is actually not awful when you know how to do it, and it does allow for handling code faster provided there is a human that knows what they're doing on the other side. As he said, it's a tool, and it can be useful. It isn't reasonable,
nor even possible to entirely remove AI-generated code, because...you can't actually tell most of the time whether code has been generated by AI at any part of its development. Sorry, BSD fans, but yeah, BSD absolutely has AI-generated code in it, even if you can't say which bits specifically, because that's just what the environment is these days.
Luckily, code generation also is not all that resource-intensive. It is
not the same as image and video generation. The scale is not even comparable. In China, they aren't worried about AI the same way they are in the west — why? Because there's actual oversight on how these data centres are constructed and powered, their models are much more efficient, and they're used for better purposes overall than ours. And guess what? You can use their models. You can plop them in your own home and use them to generate code. It doesn't take much. You don't need to rely on fucking Anthropic or whatever.
So seriously. Calm the hell down. Stop grandstanding about things you don't know anything about because someone said the two evilest letters in the alphabet that you can't divest from thoughts about Grok and pornographic deepfakes. That isn't all the technology is. That's the point being made here.
