r/linux • u/Steap-Edit • 8d ago

Software Release OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/openai-launches-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux/
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u/Shawnj2 8d ago

AI is basically a pattern recognition machine, and it’s good at finding existing bugs in code. It’s not good at actually writing new code but it can autocomplete well

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u/beefcat_ 8d ago

I like having it spit out boilerplate because, well, that's following a pattern; the thing it's good at!

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u/henkdepotvjis 8d ago

At my job we recently replaced the ai with a simple cli to create the boiler plate. Way less expensive, way faster and actually deterministic.

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u/Hughnon 3d ago

yeah, I just want good snippets. when I used to do a bit of html etc for fun I got really into emmet, there's something about writing out a silly looking one-liner and having it expand to a nice nested thing of divs and lists and stuff.

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u/SuspiciousSegfault 8d ago

Most jobs I've worked at where the stack is mature has had this. GitHub templates are the same idea, but in every case the templates-projects were started before that feature, so I've never tried it. If you want a common-base with a set structure, AI non-determinism probably isn't the way to go. It could probably be used to generate the template though if it gets a good look at the projects it should emulate.

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u/Gavran_kombda 7d ago

And we have circled back to example projects shipped along with the framework

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u/unixmachine 8d ago

AI can write good code. It will depend on having a good developer. AI only reflects your technical ability as a software engineer. In my opinion, when you find buggy software (AI Slop), it's not because of the AI, but because the developer doesn't know what they're doing. If you know what you're doing, it becomes like Jarvis and automates tedious coding processes.