I think that’s because Linus subverted all expectations by those people, which comes at a shock. They were expecting Linus to be against Ai. Especially because in the past he was bashing and not taking Ai seriously. So he changed his mind, while the audience (who do not work on the Linux Kernel) stayed with the same opinion.
I think that’s because Linus subverted all expectations by those people, which comes at a shock. They were expecting Linus to be against Ai. Especially because in the past he was bashing and not taking Ai seriously. So he changed his mind, while the audience (who do not work on the Linux Kernel) stayed with the same opinion.
indeed, that does sound like a good hypothesis as to what happened here.
He did not change his mind, the AI changed, and got way less bad.
Especially for checking code for bugs it can be great. It will not catch everything but 90%.
He changed his mind, because Ai started to get useful.