Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds’ newest undertaking accommodates code that was “principally written by vibe coding,” however you shouldn’t learn that to imply that Torvalds is embracing that strategy for something and all the pieces.
Torvalds typically works on a small passion initiatives over vacation breaks. Final 12 months, he made guitar pedals. This 12 months, he did some work on AudioNoise, which he calls “one other foolish guitar-pedal-related repo.” It creates random digital audio results.
Torvalds revealed that he had used an AI coding device within the README for the repo:
Additionally notice that the python visualizer device has been principally written by vibe-coding. I do know extra about analog filters—and that’s not saying a lot—than I do about python. It began out as my typical “google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do” sort of programming, however then I lower out the middle-man—me—and simply used Google Antigravity to do the audio pattern visualizer.
Google’s Antigravity is a fork of the AI-focused IDE Windsurf. He didn’t specify which mannequin he used, however utilizing Antigravity suggests (however doesn’t show) that it was some model of Google’s Gemini.
Torvalds’ previous public feedback on utilizing massive language model-based instruments for programming have been extra nuanced than many on-line discussions about it.
He has touted AI primarily as “a device to assist preserve code, together with automated patch checking and code evaluation,” citing examples of instruments that discovered issues he had missed.
However, he has additionally mentioned he’s typically “a lot much less desirous about AI for writing code,” and has publicly mentioned that he’s not anti-AI in precept, however he’s very a lot anti-hype round AI.
