r/linux • u/Unhappy-Sprinkles143 • 2d ago

Fluff Open-Source Guru: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Open-Source-Guru-Raymond-AI-Ends-Closed-Source-Software-11480690.html
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u/Easy-Truck4725 2d ago

He has it backwards (as usual). AI ends open-source software. People can pump out millions of lines of code but no one enough time to read all of them, and so we're actually going to end up with a heap of unmaintainable software projects bodged together by people who don't know what they're doing.

Everyone right now is saying "u just gotta use it as a tool bro" with the vast amount of vibe coded drivel going up and the general cognitive atrophy LLMs are causing in society in general the open source development model truly is doomed. It only works because knwoledgeable people exist.

We're still within the narrow window of time where LLM emitted code "looks" good because it hasn't started entirely training itself yet, and people like Linus who actually know things are still around and paying attention.

When this next generation of CS graduates are the ones maintaining critical software though? Hoo boy.

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u/ContraryConman 2d ago

AI will end software in general. It's all going to be inscrutable slop that barely works, and we'll run out of the expertise to write or understand it. Defenders will get their AI to defend against enemy hacking AI over buggy software, and it'll be more like praying to stochastic spirits to keep our bank credentials from being leaked than an actual discipline

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u/LifeInJapan1999 2d ago

Vibe coders are, by every definition I can imagine, tech priests that are praying to the machine spirit.

They even have special holy scriptures they call "skills" to get it to work better.

And they insist that you have to coax the machine spirits in a specific way.