Comment Re:The code generators work because they save work (Score 1) 100
And no one schedules enough time for a full review.
I still just don't understand what Torvalds is saying here. It doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of AI.
You are right. Maybe Linux Foundation members have been pressuring him to use it for something in the kernel. They pressured him successfully in the past.
... buying CBS and CNN?
No one else wants them.
“So, I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at,” Torvalds went on,
I guess the key is to use AI to do something you're bad at. Apparently you are good at making lovely documents, so that wasn't effective.
It's far from perfect, but it's better than many a junior dev at this point.
People who talk about "junior devs" don't know much about the software industry.
Unit tests are generally a mechanical translation of the requirements into software that verifies each requirement has been met.
Those are functional tests, not unit tests (unless your specification was so detailed it was written in UML).
We need better tools to understand, manage and reduce complexity, not tools that allow us to create more.
That is begging the question. What I mean is, a lot of people want more complexity, because they want things to take longer, because they make more money. Middle managers want programmers to be busy but go slowly so they can justify hiring more people. There was an interview with Marc Andreesen about that, and Bjarne Stroustrup earlier.
Bottom line: faster isn't better.
What's frustrating is how many people do not realize they're about to lose everything.
Probably not.
Natural laws have no pity.