Code is cheap. Show me the talk

I just re-watched the video (currently halfway) & I feel like the point of Linux is something which you are forgetting but it was never intended to grow so much and Linux himself in the video when asked says that he never had a moment where he went like oh this went big.

In fact he talks about when the project was little. On how he had gratitude when the project had 10 people maybe 100 people working on it and then things only grow over a very large time frame (more than 25-30years? maybe now 35 just searched 34)

He talks about how he got other people's idea which he couldn't have thought of things themselves and when he first created the project he just wanted to show off to the world to look at what I did (and he did it mainly for both the end result of the project and programming itself too) and then he got introduced to open source (free software) by his friend and he just decided to have it open source.

My point is it was neither the code nor the talk. Linus is the best person to maintain Linux, why? Because he has been passionate over it for 25 years. I feel like Linux would be just as interested in talking about the code and any improvements now with maybe the same vigour as 34 years ago. He loves his creation & we love Linux too :)

Another small point I wish to add is that if talk was the only thing, then you are missing the point because Linux was created because hurd was getting delayed (so all talks no code)

Linux himself says that if the hurd kernel would've been released earlier, Linux wouldn't have been created.

So all talk no code Hurd project (which from what I hear right now is still a bit limbo as now everyone [rightfully?] uses linux) is what led to creation of linux project.

Everyone who hasn't watched Linus's ted ed should definitely watch it.

The Mind Behind Linux | Linus Torvalds | TED : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NPllzkFhE

After using AI to code, I came to the same conclusion myself. Interns and juniors are fully cooked:

- Companies will replace them with AI, telling seniors to use AI instead of juniors

- As a junior, AI is a click away, so why would you spend sleepless nights painstakingly acquiring those fundamentals?

Their only hope is to use AI to accelerate their own _learning_, not their performance. Performance will come after the learning phase.

If you're young, use AI as a personal TA, don't use it to write the code for you.

Whether it could is distinct from whether it will. I'm sure you've noticed the decline in the quality of clothing. Markets a mercurial and subject to manipulation through hype (fast fashion is just a marketing scheme to generate revenue, but people bought into the lie).

With code, you have a complicating factor, namely, that LLMs are now consuming their own shit. As LLM use increases, the percentage of code that is generated vs. written by people will increase. That risks creating an echo chamber of sorts.

- A good and experienced developer who knows how to organize and structure systems will become more productive.

- An inexperienced developer will also be able to produce more code but not necessarily systems that are maintainable.

- A sloppy developer will produce more slop.