The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.
Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:
"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."
He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.
His point is something most people are too afraid to say.
AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?
He also flagged something nobody is talking about.
AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.
"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."
And his final warning was the sharpest of all.
"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."
The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.
Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.
Full interview here:
https://t.co/LmXJtvKc4O
@Ngnghm Smalltalk was ok for a small demo but working on a large project the garbage collector would cause the UI to hang for minutes several times an hour. This was in ~1995 using expensive hardware with maxed out memory.
Oddly this information is very hard to find.
Professor of public health at the University of Otago, Michael Baker, told Stuff there had been 184 hospitalisations and 19 deaths in the last week.
https://t.co/efwiuAGSlp
A massive study of 40,537 people in @ScienceDirect just redefined C0VID as "a condition of long-lasting immune compromise."
20 months post-infection, T-cells & NK cells (our primary viral & cancer defense) had NOT recovered. So much for "It's mild."
https://t.co/CIoDq7JO8t 🧵1
Surely it’s getting a bit embarrassing for the NHS infection control folks that everyone is (finally) cottoning on to the fact that surgical masks do not protect against airborne transmission…
…and yet, surgical masks are STILL all they’re recommending for use in hospitals!
The Skripal Novichok Hoax - I did not anticipate that an open public meeting in Salisbury itself would be 95% sceptical of the official Novichok hoax - but it was.
Thanks to UK Column for putting this on. I hope you find it enlightening - there https://t.co/b3PpcdBpsM