Linus: "I don't want to be part of the hype" Video Thumbnail: "AI will REPLACE YOU!" [with a photo of Linus]

Last sane person in the tech industry.

"let's wait". As a programmer that started in 1986 and went to the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver in 1993 to buy Linux in a book, hearing him say "let's wait" is very good advice. Don't be so quick to adopt new things in software. Most are just fads.

"Every project I've started is because of me being frustrated with other people being incompetent" 🤣🤣

It's so interesting that great projects like Linux came from the dissatisfaction of one developer. So believe in your own needs, it often means there are enough people who have the same needs.

bro, the editing... don't repeat the clips in a 10 minute video please.

1:01 he deserved more laughs for that, including from the host. That was very well-timed 😆

Thats the guy i'd love as a leader, down to earth, not sleeping with his investors.

And Crypto was followed by Metaverse/VR. Facebook even changed their name to Meta. There’s always some tech hype going on to lure investors money. They don’t seem to afford to not jump early into each bandwagon.

At 8:10, "beautiful science" in results in "beautiful science" out. That's B.S. and it's what you get when you use poor data to train a machine learning model. However, we are getting to a point where we can "generate" data to do training. However, the hard things for people to do are not always easy to train a model to do. This is what Linus was talking about when he said he wanted AI to help him. But that is problematic. A little earlier (at about 7:10) Linus Torvalds mentions the very complex tools used to modify kernel source code. Being able to do this with "AI" would be very useful he says, but I'm guessing it is one of the further-down-the-line places we are going to get. When refactoring/modifying code to do complex things like change the size of a data structure that is accessed directly in assembly language, or low-level C, fixing the offsets and finding all the references to the code can be tricky. Writing algorithmic code (as opposed to a data-driven machine learning model) is exceedingly complex, so I'm guessing it will happen much later. One of the things we ARE seeing is machine learning models that learn by trying. Google has some robots that play soccer and someone else has a robot that sutures wounds. These can learn by trying. Learning how to fix problems like Linus is talking about is very hard to set up. Perhaps this is a good research project for someone.

The free version Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer is currently trying to convince me to use its AI. It’s Absurd.

"Beautiful Science is what he meant." 🤣

I wanted to see a meme of Linus waving at the camera and saying “Nvidia, thank you!” 😂

Of course Linus has the most logical outlook on AI. I swear all these fear mongering “tech” people are just trying to pump Nvidia stock.

I was looking for midi files to listen to (this is what I used to listen to before MP3s) and was surprised to find some sites with web rings that still function. It brought me back and made me think about using the web then and using the web now. Exploring the net-scape using web rings and link boards is like taking a relaxing and refreshing walk near a gentle stream. Not long after my search for midi files, I had to return to googling for something more urgent, and I realized that modern web usage is not exploratory at all; it's more like hailing a cab in the very busy downtown of a large super urban city. Definitely we need the urgent method sometimes, but I wonder if we do not overrely on it.

When he was told could not say "BS" Torvalds should have got up and ended the interview.

Anyone know the link to the full video or the name of this talk?

7:38 😭😭😭😭😭 guys please be competent. I’m supposed to be a simple child bearer!!!!!

It should b assist u not replace.

He's right.. The best play especially to programmers is to only use the AI for specific syntax searches and NOT to fill out or have it write lines of code for you. You won't be a great programmer by doing that sort of thing. I'm reminded of auto-correct... think of how many words you cannot spell because of it.

Louis CK has improved his tech talk skills big time.

Where is the original?

We're all Gen AI now. 👶

Everyone wants to get into coding and the industry promises the moon, but here is one of the people that founded a large chunk of what everyone wants a piece of and he's still doing it! And he's on a podcast that wants his opinion on how many jobs will be in tech with AI, will it lead to more or less jobs? The answer is, very few now, and even less in the future. There are more people going into tech than ever before and the few people that started it all are still in power and are making things even more efficient. How could this ever be a sustainable job industry? Software engineers aren't going to get replaced by AI, but their job will probably get bundled into mechanical or electrical engineering roles and the theoretical research will move into the doctorate space in academia. The same way AutoCAD seemed like it would lead to a whole new industry of technical trades, and instead it just ended up getting bundled into the basic education of every machinist and mechanic coming out of school. Every engineer i know writes code and half switch to software developers because they don't want to work in a factory or foundry as a traditional engineer, but they already work in data analytics day to day and are bored of measuring rpm's on motors. Now it's worse because of inclusion. That killed the boot camps credibility and COVID filled every company up with inclusive staff for the anticipated increase in online business, and all of that has ended, leaving many unemployed and highly skilled people that will get a job before you do, especially if they meet some inclusive criteria. Now, i support helping under represented people, but this isn't going to help them succeed and it just hurts everyone else. The fact that most developers make KZfaq videos or work as recruiters tells you all you need to know about the 'amazing' pay and benefits of the average highly trained coder.

Personally I use AI to assist, and want as described a 4-eyes/paiered coding, otherwise build standardised modules and snippets. I tried and game design, pong, and waa given a solid basic design (both Claude and ChatGPT); simple changes were easy, but (as per uaee feature creep) the program devolved, and as modifications were more targetted to interface design errors and code style breaks increased, ie integration to existing world "High Score" table. But patching to directly interface to a poorly defined tools and webservices it managed baþer rhan I! A MASSIVE TOOL, but OS code/Service layer code needs strong review to ensure code is safe.

Thank God for dudes like Linus, who just come from a place of honest sense.

Can somebody share the origin talk, please?

I would like to see the programs and algorithms as open source. I would like to see the algorithm that they use to censor out "hate", "false truths", and "lies". So will they make public the algorithm to determine what is hate speech?

Louis CK is a good inverviewer.

Really, we need split data and information. The IT actually is DT, there is nobody to inform.

the “beautiful science” was what he meant… lol

One of a wise man, definitely !! And in reverse engineering, we’re also praying to get some assistance, lots of promises, and still not much to see in the horizon… and personally, the more I dig into the mechanics of GenAI, the more I get convinced that it’s indeed a hype 🤔

"FINALLY"

A question: 100 programming languages? Why not only one?... Subject Oriented Programming!! I built it!!!

AI will never replace me. I wouldn't put up with management. They are also AI. Artificial Incompentence. [Supposed to be humourous. I know -- don't quit my day job.]

Ai would not be able to create git you need linus torvald for this it takes higher level thinking

Why is this interviewer correcting Torvalds and telling him he can't say BS? Wtf, he's not talking to toddlers, why this censorship?

Linus is God

Have they even used Claude or openai latest products?

Hey Hi instead. Well this is THE purpose of IT. To make things irreversible. Isn't it ? The interviewer is horrendous.

Not a fan of when interviewers pose their questions in such a descriptive way that the interviewee has no choice but to answer within the very specific context provided. Then he keeps interrupting Linus and making cringey remarks.

AI is the NFT of 2024... Exit while you can...

Maybe stick to talking about OS development 😂