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2026

Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

Linus Torvalds, Another silly guitar-pedal-related repo

# 11th January 2026, 2:29 am / linus-torvalds, python, ai, generative-ai, llms, vibe-coding

2007

Don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Linus Torvalds

# 16th December 2007, 9:53 pm / evolution, linus-torvalds, linux, open-source, programming

A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds. Makes the case that Git has proved Linus Torvald correct on every point of his infamous debate with Bram Cohen back in 2005.

# 17th July 2007, 10:29 pm / 2005, bram-cohen, debate, git, linus-torvalds, version-control, wincent-colaiuta

As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd' constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens".

Linus Torvalds

# 4th February 2007, 10:33 pm / funny, linus-torvalds, linux, superbowl

Linus Torvalds: Super Kernel Sunday! Linux kernel version 2.6.20 is out, and includes virtualization thanks to KVM.

# 4th February 2007, 10:32 pm / kernel, kvm, linus-torvalds, linux, virtualization

2004

Linus Torvalds: SCO Is “Just Too Wrong” (via) “There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they’d still be wrong.”

# 28th January 2004, 4:57 am / linus-torvalds

2003

Linus Interview

Linux creator an open source, an interesting interview with Linus Torvalds covering the IBM/SCO case, leaving Transmeta and his opinions of Silicon Valley.