[netniuq]

Overall, sensible take.

I think Linus' position even pre-LLM-coding – basically not trusting any code he gets, and not writing any code himself, just reviewing a ton of it – is strikingly similar to how most people now do "software engineering" (or vibe coding/agentic engineering or whatever you want to call what we're doing nowadays).

From his perspective, the only things that changed is that he can more quickly/better review code and find bugs, and maintainers below him are somewhat more annoyed due to the influx of AI slop.