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So many people's take away from this story is that Linus used Claude to improve the Kernel therefore anyone can.

Linus (and any other human engineer that isn't a genuine super genius) cannot conceivably contribute anything to an LLM. It's the equivalent of a chess amateur spinning up the latest Stockfish on a beefy workstation and trying to find mistakes in it's reasoning.

> therefore anyone can

_Absolutely_ anyone can. If you want proof of this just download the latest kernel tree and ask Claude to write a new module for you (whether it's a driver, a new syscall, or anything really) and see how far you get. Within an hour (sometimes less) you'll have a perfectly working kernel component.

Working =/= Good is the whole lesson of the LLM era.

And you can contribute to an LLM through in context learning, that's the basics

Don't know why you're getting hammered here. There's a clear skill factor in piloting LLMs.

Anything pro LLM but anti RSI gets hammered here lol. SPY is giving a little wake up call

Given a lot of the starry-eyed reactions on HN, I’ve come to suspect that a lot of the devs here were/are primarily working on CRUD apps. That would also track with the amount of attention that Ruby articles get around here.

Yeah, I get the feeling AI coding maximalists work in fairly narrow areas like that where they're just churning out endpoints in CRUD apps over and over.

I can see how you could use AI to design and implement some 100,000 line codebase, full of nothing but that, stamped out over and over in exactly the same pattern and never read a single line of the code.

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