Linus Torvalds comes out swinging in favor of AI/SI! 🔥 The creator of Linux calls rules banning AI tools "utterly stupid" and "idiotic", comparing them to banning compilers or text editors because developers should have to prove they can do everything by hand.
His message couldn't be clearer: What matters is understanding your code, not which tools you use to write it. And he goes even further, saying that the intelligent people he respects are precisely those who don't shy away from new and interesting tools. That's a powerful rejection of anti-AI gatekeeping from one of the most influential programmers alive!
Linus Torvalds says, rules prohibiting AI usage are “UTTERLY STUPID” and “idiotic”.
For the Linux kernel, Torvalds says, “we’re not going to make stupid rules that say ‘you can’t use tools for X’”.