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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[-] forrgott@lemmy.zip 23 points 4 days ago

If you can pull your own dick out of your ass for long enough to be pragmatic its pretty easy to tell that while Ai wont ever live up to its hype it will find a good place in most peoples work flow at SOME level. Its unlikely that Ai will reach a level where it will EVER be safe to deploy for a project as high profile as the kernel.

Maybe take your own advice? If the best case scenario is still a tool with high enough failure rate it can't actually be trusted, then your tool might just be hallucinations from huffing your own farts.

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