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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Thankfully Linux still yas Linus who seems to be a simple guy who doesn’t jump on hype trains. But there will come a day when he either no longer wants to deal with the responsibility, or he passes; in both cases, we will have to hope that whomever takes the reigns doesn’t pull a Tim Apple approach to management of the Linux ecosystem.

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[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Continuing, Torvalds said he's "much less interested in AI for writing code" and far more excited about "AI as the tool to help maintain code, including automated patch checking and code review before changes ever reach him."

That reads to me like he's open to using a code-specific model as a pre-screening tool for code so he doesn't have to look at quite as much bullshit, not for coding. He's treating it as a tool, not as a solution.

In my opinion, that's the sane approach: trying out what it's useful for rather than wholly blocking it off.

Torvalds pushed back on claims that AI will fundamentally transform programming, comparing it instead to a new layer in a long evolution of tools. He argued that compilers were the real revolution: "Compilers are a 1,000x acceleration for programming," he said, while AI might add "10x or even 100x on top of that," still it's "just a tool."

"Please don't think that AI is something that revolutionizes programming, because we did that already," he said of compiler authors "decades ago." Still, he expects AI-powered review to "hopefully be a fairly integral part of our flow" as early as next year, even as he jokes that "if in 10 years, robots will have taken over and killed us all, I was wrong."

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