Linus Torvalds about Vibe codeing 🤯🤯 #linux #programming #cybersecurity

[0:00]Hey, Claude, I want you to develop this feature. All the way to people saying, in a week, with the help of one of those AIs, I built a complete product. Are you playing with this at all? I'm not playing with it at all. I'm sure people are looking at it even for the kernel codebase. I suspect the kernel is insular and different enough that despite us having a lot of code in the open that you can use to teach AI. I don't think a lot of people are doing vibe coding for the kernel. Vibe coding may be a horrible, horrible idea from a maintenance standpoint if you actually try to make a product for it. But I think it's a great way for new people to get involved and get excited about computers and get computers to do something that maybe they couldn't do otherwise. And so, I actually am fairly positive about this all, ignoring all the people who then hope to make billion dollar companies by just using vibe coding. But we do see a lot of talk about layoffs of software developers, real job losses in the US, thousands, tens of thousands of people getting laid off. And usually with the all AI makes us so much more productive. And if you think about people who are students today, thinking about computer science, do you think there will be a significant impact on software development as a career? I honestly don't know. This is one of those things where I will just say, hey, let's wait a few years to see what the real answer is because I think it's a complicated question. And I suspect my personal opinion is that you will notice that you will need all the same maintainers to actually keep that project going. And that AI is just another tool, the same way compilers freed people from writing assembly code by hand and increased productivity enormously, but didn't make programmers go away. I think AI in the end will be that too, that it's another tool that allows you to not have to deal with all of the minutiae, but it doesn't make the actual programmers go away. That's my gut feel.