Torvalds "unwilling to work without an LLM" at Kernel Maintainers Summit

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How about just asking him if he is considering becoming a borg , or perhaps it's the other way around and maybe he will try and imprint himself on the LLM, or again maybe in this case it's specificly like having an talented contributor with unlimited patience and no personality to manage. In any case, elite coders used to managing large diverse teams will be in a position to leaverage an LLM in ways that others cant.

> elite coders used to managing large diverse teams will be in a position to leaverage an LLM in ways that others cant.

agree with this part of it. it's not a new thing that some technology dramatically changes a field, including software construction. in my lifetime, there were rooms of keypunch operators to program computers. then you had assemblers, then compilers, then IDEs, now this. admittedly LLMs are a bigger leap than all of those other things combined.

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