What the actual fuck, Guardian.

Did the headline change? The current headline is Torvalds: “100% of Their Code is Written by Compilers” Too

The title of this post makes for a dumb headline, at any rate. Linus, in response to claims in the industry that projects are now “99% written by AI”, drew an analogy to compilers by saying that all machine code for projects are written by compilers, yet no one says their project was 100% written by a compiler. It’s just talking about stupid hype, which is valid.

That being said, it’s still quite unfortunate that Linus has fallen into the trap of LLMs.

Umm I use Jira and Confluence on Firefox every day without issue. Not sure what you’re talking about. The only time I’ve ever had to use Chrome in my professional career were certain tools that require chrome dev tools. Otherwise, it’s Firefox for everything.

This is what happens when you don’t take a stand against this shit. He brought it on himself.

Username checks out. Yeesh. Can’t believe there are people that are this fucking stupid about this shit in 2026.

Yes. They are con artists with a proven track record of lying and stealing. We shouldn’t take anything they say seriously, especially when the reporting reads much more like marketing rather than an incident report.

Wow. Are German websites just full of CVEs all the time?

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Yup. Bob has always been full of shit.

It’s not getting POSIX compliance done, that’s for sure. Or compatibility with normal scripts.

Am 35, just started getting into birdwatching. Weird how true this is.

How is this a response to a comment about AGI?

LLMs are not currently, nor ever will be, anything remotely resembling AGI. AGI is still entirely within the realm of science fiction, like teleportation or time travel.

It doesn’t need nearly as many. AI inference is orders of magnitude more expensive than a single search query (ignoring the fact that Google does it’s own inference with search queries now). And that doesn’t even include training, which is stupidly expensive to do.

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That’s not lying. There’s nothing linguistic about numerical computation.

Don’t worry, cult membership is flexible.

Not sure what you’re trying to say. Are you saying this is a good thing?

What are you talking about? What citations?

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Nulls are absolutely pervasive in Java and NPEs are not avoidable. At minimum, most of the ecosystem uses nulls, so most any library will have nulls as part of its interface. Null is an inhabitant of every type in Java (even Optional, ironically). You cannot escape it. It’s a fundamental flaw in the design of the language.

Btw, you also can’t escape it in Typescript, either, due to unsoundness of the type system and the fact that many types for libraries are bolted on to the original JS implementation and may possibly be inaccurate. But still, it’s a lot less likely than Java.