Post by @zzt@mas.to

torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager discovers the slopbot” points

and of course, observers know what comes next: trying to shout over every breakage, every maintainer that leaves, every instance where using LLMs has proven to be a horrible fucking idea

nobody operating in good faith thinks an LLM is like a compiler. this is an AI booster meme from early 2026. but torvalds has a captive audience, so his bad takes don’t need to be new. expect to see this crap parroted once again by the worst guys you know. https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117451805824031590

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

and I am serious about this: if you want to predict what torvalds will say and do next, look at what AI boosters in power did months ago. he’s following the playbook to a T, and he’s digging up all the old justifications.

that makes it rather easy to shout back, of course, but torvalds isn’t (currently) afraid of that. he believes himself to be immune to shame.

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

and hey, you know what? the linux kernel boy wants to pretend he can’t see a single difference between an LLM and a compiler or an editor?

sure thing, kernel boy

the fuck was that CS degree again for? did you have your little brother write your code and take credit for it or something?

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

mail back your degree, fucker, we’ve proven beyond doubt you never completed your compilers requirement. we’ll fix the mistake your registrar made when they granted it.

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

hey given that you like stochastic bullshit so much, how about this

all of linus torvalds’ success writing kernel code happened by chance. he is a fraud.

that’s exactly the same as using an LLM. prove me wrong, little fucker.

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

you won’t, you don’t have any brain left in your fucking head. we know what happens to mid little fucks who embrace the slop machines. people who actually completed their degrees researched it!

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

it is currently day 0 of linus torvalds being unable to prove he isn’t a fraud who stumbled into or plagiarized all the code he wrote

start the fucking counter, right next to the “days since AGI with no general intelligence found” counter

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

got my first “why so angry” from some oblivious motherfucker

tell me, gang. read torvalds’ words and tell me why I’m so angry

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@zzt@mas.to 15 hr. ago

why would I respond to repeated and personal betrayals by one of the most toxic men in tech with anger?

and yes, when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal. it doesn’t matter if torvalds knows who I am. I frankly don’t give a shit if he does. what I need you to know is he’s a weak fuck pretending to be a genius.

Abhiram

@axel@social.glitched.systems 15 hr. ago

@zzt@mas.to

> "when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal"

I don't understand how more people don't see this. They're strip-mining the internet and selling it back to you via taps that they control. It's crazy to me that people are so quick to willingly surrender to what is clearly a new form of mass oppression that's taking root.

I'm already dealing with fresh college grads who can't arrive at solutions without prompting, it's extremely alarming every time I run into these people in classes.

Also, as an aside, the people who are okay with slopping code but don't like it when art is slopped are a whole other enigma to me. Like, do you just not value your work? Is that it?

Techokami

@techokami@woof.tech 15 hr. ago

@zzt man things would be a lot different if stallman ripped off the BSD kernel instead of trying to cook up one from scratch based on someone else's thesis

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