#Linus #Torvalds: “I don't understand this whole idiotic concept of "don't use AI for X". Here's a new rule just for you: don't use compilers for any of your kernel submissions.”
Last time I checked, compilers didn't randomly hallucinate. Or have any randomness in their behavior at all, for that matter.
Nor did people bafflingly praise compilers for doing things that pre-existing tools already did perfectly well (e.g. finding call sites). Compilers did something new.
#Linux #LinusTorvalds #AI
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