Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as “fairly positive” about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.
Torvalds was interviewed by Dirk Hohndel, head of open source at Verizon, at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul, South Korea, earlier this month.
Torvalds is technical lead and maintainer of the Linux kernel, but said that “for the last almost 20 years, I’ve not been a programmer.” As for Git, which he invented, “I really just look at it from the side.”
I mean it is better than not coding at all.
It’s basically like telling a junior dev to code something for you and then passing it off as your own work.
Would’t call that coding either.
The idea I heard the other day by Brandon Sanderson that made sense to me: if an art director instructs artists to make something, they would never pass that off as their own work