Insecure European with false sense of superiority

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Cake day: January 24th, 2026

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  • We’re not talking about the average clueless vibe coder here. Programming involves a lot more than just writing code. What Torvalds did was essentially “AI assisted coding”. As i understand it, he used it to narrow down the position of the bug in the code and then fixed it himself with a one-liner because apparently AI couldn’t find a solution on its own:

    And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I’d like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am. But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above. This is basically a one-liner fixing a bogus “round_up()” to a “round_down()”, but there were 24 patches adding more and more debug information to this, and 18 kernel boot to finally narrow it down to this. - Linus

    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c>

    That’s basically how AI should be used. To speed up things that are technically easy to do, but still very time consuming.














  • Lol, kinda funny i found this thread just now. I just unsubbed from yet another Euro sub because it’s being flooded with racists and other far-right propagandists. One of them even tried to use my own source against me, accusing me of “not reading it”, and then quote the very thing that quite literally contradicted his point. He then accused me of “trolling” and blocked me when i mentioned his sad attempt at cherry picking.

    It’s kinda sad, since that’s the page that helped me improve my English at least a little bit and connect to like-minded people. So many nice memories over the years.