Torvalds: "100% of Their Code Is Written by Compilers" Too. The Linux creator argued that AI-written code claims are misleading — and warned that a wave of low-quality, AI-generated bug reports is quietly burning out the maintainers who keep open source running.
bingo. and unfortunately the lazy and inexperienced are using it more than others, or using it at a much higher degree. Linus even says it himself. they file a report and then “vanish” because they can’t answer follow up questions or clarifications because they don’t know how. if you deal with LLMs and the people that use them as much as I do for my job you see this constantly. daily even. they “build” something and when it’s reviewed and questioned the answers are just no where to be found because the “coder” can’t answer them.
Like the other day there’s this guy on Youtube who is a huge advocate for Omarchy for whatever reason. older guy but he’s always going on about how great Omarchy is. he posts a video about how “we” built some application for Omarchy but the entire video is him putting prompts into Claude Code and then walking away. never touches it, never writes a line of code. but there were glaring bugs with the build so I reached out to him, asked him how he was going to address these things and hoping he wouldn’t put this app out there because it’s clearly broken. works on a surface level but it WILL break. he essentially told me to “fuck off”.
you’re right an LLM is a tool but one that should be in the hands of those that know what they’re doing. you wouldn’t hand a hammer to a child and tell them to build a house. you wouldn’t hand a gun to a junkie and tell them they’re now a cop. I wouldn’t hand Vim to my mother and tell her to build a website. I feel LLMs should require human training just like any other tools we use. If you want to allow LLMs into your open source project, sure, have at it but it should be YOUR responsibility to vet and interview each individual that wishes to contribute utilizing said tools.
bingo. and unfortunately the lazy and inexperienced are using it more than others, or using it at a much higher degree. Linus even says it himself. they file a report and then “vanish” because they can’t answer follow up questions or clarifications because they don’t know how. if you deal with LLMs and the people that use them as much as I do for my job you see this constantly. daily even. they “build” something and when it’s reviewed and questioned the answers are just no where to be found because the “coder” can’t answer them.
Like the other day there’s this guy on Youtube who is a huge advocate for Omarchy for whatever reason. older guy but he’s always going on about how great Omarchy is. he posts a video about how “we” built some application for Omarchy but the entire video is him putting prompts into Claude Code and then walking away. never touches it, never writes a line of code. but there were glaring bugs with the build so I reached out to him, asked him how he was going to address these things and hoping he wouldn’t put this app out there because it’s clearly broken. works on a surface level but it WILL break. he essentially told me to “fuck off”.
you’re right an LLM is a tool but one that should be in the hands of those that know what they’re doing. you wouldn’t hand a hammer to a child and tell them to build a house. you wouldn’t hand a gun to a junkie and tell them they’re now a cop. I wouldn’t hand Vim to my mother and tell her to build a website. I feel LLMs should require human training just like any other tools we use. If you want to allow LLMs into your open source project, sure, have at it but it should be YOUR responsibility to vet and interview each individual that wishes to contribute utilizing said tools.