Re: Quoting Linus Torvalds

Table of Contents1. Linus on AI2. My Thoughts

1. Linus on AI

Linus Torvalds' recent defense of AI in the Linux kernel sparked the predictable backlash, but the real debate is far more nuanced than that.

This specific blog post is in response to Simon Willison's post of the quotation below on his website.

As Linus says in his message:

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in que…