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  • Indeed. There will be lots of times when you’ll be reading code without a while IDE attached. When doing code reviews in the browser, when looking at patch files or git diffs in the command line, when browsing code files on some git host, or when you’ve gone to a confrence and you left your laptop in the hotel room because Steve from accounting assured you it would just be a meet-and-greet with clients, but then some production bug hit and every odd-numbered request is returning a 401 for some reason, so you need to borrow Steve’s laptop to fix this.



  • We cannot know, in the same way we cannot know that it doesn’t contain code that is hand-written on graph paper and scanned in via OCR.

    The standards for code submissions for the kernel are extremely high, and their review process very strict and complete. There are no barriers stopping LLM generated code from entering the code base, but the barrier of entry for the code quality itself is so high that you have to submit code at the quality of a seasoned and competent engineer.

    Ultimately, does it matter that the code was LLM written if the quality is sufficiently high?


  • The problem with this approach is twofold.

    1. The AI doesn’t know what anything is either. It can annotate faster than you, but if it is all wrong, that doesn’t help.
    2. The primary reason the code is bad, and something the AI is particularly weak at without a human doing much of the thinking for it is architecture. Working your way through ship-of-theseus-style isn’t going to address the fundamental reason the code is difficult to work with. The architecture.








  • You’re missing the point.

    China might use your data and hurt you in some far future, whereas the USA will use your data right now in a direct and violent way.

    I can explain how the US government having access to the database of all of TikTok’s data might directly result in a visit from ICE. The path to damage caused by China may exist too, but is much more nebulous, and much more difficult for China to execute on.

    Yes, if you are in a government position, or in the army, you probably shouldn’t use TikTok under China’s management. But Joe Schmoe from California has little to materially fear from them. But he does have reason to fear the USA government who might well come over and arrest him.