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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[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

Stop calling it "vibe coding". Vibe coding is literally yoloing the generated output and then repeatedly reprompting when it doesn't work. The second you put in a modicum of effort to examine the code generated you are no longer "vibe" coding.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Right? It's like calling all e-mail "spam."

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

ok, rator coding then.

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