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This take on LLMs that "Torvalds and the maintainers are acknowledging reality: developers are going to use AI tools to code faster, and trying to ban them is like trying to ban a specific brand of keyboard." is a straw man fallacy.

A more similar comparison would be "trying to ban them is like trying to ban copy pasting code from other projects" (which is indeed banned).

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement

#LLM #Linux #TomsHardware
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