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The original LinkedIn post is pretty wild. I wonder if he did a fat line of coke before writing that, or if it actually were any concrete plans that have been worked out.
With AI, I can produce 1 million lines of code in one day.
Artificial benchmarks produce artificial results.
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My goal is for every line of C/C++ to be rewritten. My goal. Not Microsoft's or SpaceX's or... When Galen says "my goal is ..." I take that at face value but as aspirational.
They also used the first person in describing the position they were hiring for > I have an open position in my team for a IC5 Principal Engineer. The position in in-person in Redmond Reading between the lines is what's needed to differentiate that from the immediately following sentences that are also in the first person. I don't think it's remotely as obvious as you're saying that everyone should be able to tell th…
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I wouldn’t be saying that it takes more than Linus to build Linux if Linus agreed with me? What on earth are you talking about? Don’t quit your day job to become a detective.
Absolutely. If Linus had said "Rust for Linux might go away" then you would have said "See! The creator and leader of Linux says Rust is going to go away!" but because he said it is here to stay you're saying "Pff, Linus isn't that important." I won't quit my day job to become a detective because actual detective work isn't this trivial.
I’ve read and listened to enough of Linus to know he says this himself. The Linux kernel is nothing without the maintainers, this is easily observable and everyone knows it.
You see the reason you shouldn’t go into detective work is because you’d be terrible at it, not because it’s non-trivial.