This email of Linus Torvalds resonates perfectly with my experience and mindset:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/
I chose to quote this part because of character limit of mastodon, but read the entire thing.
> There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
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Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:
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