Slop commenting. The litany of AI slop websites that have popped up, polluting search results. The absolute flood of AI slop pull requests being submitted to open source projects, to the point at which many open source maintainers are buckling under the weight of garbage being thrown their way. Bots everywhere. The list goes on and on and on.
The internet is already a dessicated husk of what it once was.
Like when my toddler says he hates a food that he has never tried.
I’m sorry to hear about your condition.
I’m saying that AI companies have repeatedly shown a flagrant disregard for licenses, contracts, and the law, and have engaged in massive theft. Why should we expect that any contract would actually be honored? The whole thing is a huge fucking grift.
I was not talking about your specific lawsuit, or TLS.
Companies trust other companies all the time, and it’s foundational to most all SLA/SLOs. Any time I’ve voiced concerns around how AI companies are using the data we are giving them (like giving them access to our codebase), it’s brushed off as “we have an agreement with them”. It’s just a load of hogwash. They can and will abuse all data they have access to, just as they have done thus far.
In this particular case, we are talking about a data center, and it is not at all reasonable to assume that the data that flows to said data center is in any way protected, especially one run by Musk.
Still means jack shit. Companies will lie through their teeth and violate any and all they can get away with.
They are not to be trusted.
I’m worried about nix, honestly. An absolute truckload of nix packages pull their source from GitHub. It’s the primary way to distribute flakes, too.
I suppose it depends on what kind of AI we’re talking about. If you mean LLMs, then I certainly hope no one is trying to do something as foolish as that.
A lot of the stuff from James Webb is truly novel, as well, which no AI technology would be useful in understanding.
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.
Seriously. My argument against “LLMs are good at generating boilerplate” has always been “why are you putting up with needing to write boilerplate in the first place?”
I really do think that it’s emblematic of a problem that existed long before LLMs: a lot of developers were/are deeply uncomfortable with stepping outside the confines of their IDE, and thus would basically never fix workflow/DX issues unless said fix came packaged as a feature by whichever megacorp was feeding them tooling. Scripting is all but unheard of outside of things like builds or CI.
I see this divide in my own organization, actually. Our mobile developers aren’t really all that comfortable with stepping outside of what Android Studio/XCode can do and the workflows deined by Google/Apple.
Our backend team is very different. No one uses IDEa, and we’re all Unix terminal folk for the most part. Lots of scripting and tooling we’ve created over time to streamline our development.
So when me and few other backend engineers decided to write a small Caddy file to set up a reverse proxy to enable the mobile emulators to talk to our locally-running backend (rather than a shared non-prod backend that the mobile teams always use, in order to facilitate more efficient end-to-end testing for features), we may as well have been talking an entirely different language when describing it. The very idea of creating your own tooling to solve a problem with your job is just entirely alien to them.
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.
He hasn’t done any real software development in decades, and it shows. His books are chock full of terrible ideas and his ideas of “clean” anything are anything but.
One of the best examples of his hackery is this tweet: https://xcancel.com/unclebobmartin/status/982229999276060672#m
Completely false misinformation presented as fact from an “authority”.
Also apparently probably a fascist, based on this and some other tweets I came across while trying to find that one: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1398671193922805761 (apologies for the X link, can’t seem to find this one on xcancel?). I would need to look further since it’s news to me, but it’s hard to imagine any other interpretation of that tweet.
Bob Martin is a complete hack. He should not be regarded as an authoritative source and indeed, any claim he makes should be treated as highly suspect. He’s not worth reading.
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It’s not getting POSIX compliance done, that’s for sure. Or compatibility with normal scripts.
Nope, he’s based as fuck. And I don’t even like Zig that much.
He has certainly revealed himself to be a shitty person, but Shape of You is actually a pretty good concept for a song. It’s essentially a song about body acceptance created in an era where people (especially women) face constant, coercive pressure to meet impossible, idealized beauty standards. That’s why it was such a popular song. I know a lot of people who struggle with that topic, and the song really resonated with them.
It’s not like he even wrote the song, either. Pop stars almost never write their own music, and Shape of You is no exception.