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Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer (pbxscience.com)
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[–] son_of_darkness@lemmy.world 86 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

Even Linus is conflating "doing more" with "being more productive". A car factory could, if they wanted, pump 10x more cars out the door. But qualiry would decrease these would be full of defects, so in the end you weren't more productive

I don't care if there's more PRs. It's just and illusion of productivity

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Even Linus is conflating “doing more” with “being more productive”.

No he isn't:

Torvalds’ broader argument is that generating code has become easy, while maintaining a system over years or decades remains hard — and AI does not close that gap on its own. Without a working understanding of the underlying architecture, he suggested, AI assistance can help someone make mistakes faster rather than build something durable.

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