Linus Torvalds Uses Google Antigravity
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by xnx
1 day ago
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| github.com
| HN
xorvoid
1 day ago
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I feel like the comments are taking away the wrong message from this. He used it to do the part of the project that he has poor knowledge/experience/capacity for. He needs a visualization but the project isn't about visualization. He's spent a lifetime coding in C, not writing python-based visualizations.

There's a big difference between vibe-coding an entire project and having an AI build a component that you lack competency for. That is what is happening here.

It's the same principle as a startup that builds it core functionality itself in-house and then uses off-the-shelf libraries for all the other uninteresting details.

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DayGo
5 hours ago
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2022: cute, llms can autocomplete a line correctly sometimes

2023: ok it got the whole function right, still just pattern matching though

2024: cool it banged out that component in one prompt, but it's just boilerplate

2025: it one-shot an entire app, whatever, just glue code

2026: nah man that's nothing, it's just filling in competency gaps for one of the greatest programmers of all time

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skylurk
1 hour ago
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yes, but also

2026: llms can autocomplete a line correctly sometimes

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999900000999
1 day ago
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>Add README and LICENSE file I'm pushing it out to github not because it needs to be public, but because of my policy of using the internet as my backups. And because it makes it so much easier to just sync between machines.

Very cool to see a legends side project. I'll check this out when I have time even though I can't understand C well.

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braiamp
15 hours ago
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Which is exactly what he said before https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?t=764
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uldus
2 hours ago
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The day before, Linus published a post about AI slop in kernel documentation: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg0sdh_OF8zgFD-f6o9yFRK=t...
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senko
4 minutes ago
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[delayed]
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hu3
1 day ago
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BassForLinus.mp3 ?

I never clicked a file so fast in my life before.

It's a tame bass sample sound. Probably from Linus himself. I want more!

https://github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise/blob/main/BassForLinu...

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irusensei
1 day ago
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Is he slapping at 00:53? Can't wait til Davie504's cover.
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the_biot
1 day ago
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That is truly sad :-(
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numpad0
1 day ago
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What's truly "sad" is that it's ok if Google does it. It's apparently not ok when OpenAI, Musk, etc do literally the same thing.

This whole controversy reminds me of that Rhodesian designed shotgun marketed as "Street Sweeper" in the US. Making a tool is one thing. Brandishing its unsafe working end to potential customers in an attempt to impress them, alas, could lead to interesting situations...

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theflyingelvis
1 day ago
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Why is that?
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rvz
1 day ago
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Depends.

This is on projects that are not serious. So I will treat it as such.

You should worry if vibe-coders submit patches to the Linux Kernel and they do not understand them.

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appsoftware
1 day ago
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It's official, vibe coding is legit.
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wasmainiac
22 hours ago
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No it’s not, there are so many issues yet to be solved. Privacy, responsibility, etc. It literally says nothing for prototyping, we have all done it.
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_zoltan_
1 day ago
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it's always been.
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wasmainiac
22 hours ago
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You mean you want it to be.
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_zoltan_
17 hours ago
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I use it daily and it just works. If you haven't found your agentic workflow or you don't prompt it well, that's not an ecosystem problem.
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wasmainiac
13 hours ago
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That is my point it’s a you thing. Maybe your QC are lower than mine? I don’t know. No one else on my team uses it for that reason alone.
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_zoltan_
10 hours ago
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I don't know a single person who isn't just coasting at mag7 who isn't using genAI, and I know most of them are expected to do so.
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whattheheckheck
1 day ago
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No tests, mypy type hinting or doc strings -- just pure vibes
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forgotpwd16
1 day ago
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Depends on stage. Codex/Claude-generated code have hinting and doc strings, and will gladly add tests for every change you're doing. (That's why vibe coded projects have a gazillion tests.)
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whattheheckheck
18 hours ago
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I wa referring to linus' script in the repo
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