Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as “fairly positive” about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.
Torvalds was interviewed by Dirk Hohndel, head of open source at Verizon, at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul, South Korea, earlier this month.
Torvalds is technical lead and maintainer of the Linux kernel, but said that “for the last almost 20 years, I’ve not been a programmer.” As for Git, which he invented, “I really just look at it from the side.”
The argument was about deterministic abstraction.
A bunch of devs can hardly be considered an abstraction layer imo.
My argument was that a C compiler is an abstraction tool that deterministically turns the description of a program (in the C language) into machine code. That way people don’t have to write machine code by hand.