Linus Torvalds' Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise - Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding (www.phoronix.com)

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In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding.

Over the winter holidays, Linus Torvalds routinely works on new hobbies and the like. Last year he started creating his own guitar pedals as a hobby. Or as he put it back in the Linux 6.13-rc7 announcement, "LEGO for grown-ups with a soldering iron."

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[-] Feyd@programming.dev 44 points 3 months ago

Its also generally stupid for any well respecting practitioner of a trade to just disregard a new tool because its new and different.

But it's perfectly reasonable to disregard a tool for ethical reasons, of which there are many

[-] Goretantath@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

As long as its a local instance then everything should be fine.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 19 points 3 months ago

That is a major improvement but it doesn't alleviate concerns of being trained on copyleft code, which I take seriously.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

Linus is also trained on that code

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I was trained on Stack Overflow, OBVIOUSLY

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