Linus Torvalds Admits to Vibe Coding His Python Audio Visualizer

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A screenshot of a GitHub repository page for 'torvalds/AudioNoise' with the description 'Random digital audio effects'. The repo shows tabs: Code, Issues (2), Pull requests (3), Actions. The key content, highlighted in yellow, reads: '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.' The commit info shows 'torvalds Add README and LICENSE file' from '71b256a - 2 days ago'. The meme captures the surreal moment of Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git, openly admitting to vibe-coding a Python project

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The man who wrote Git and the Linux kernel in C admits he vibe-coded Python. Somewhere, a CS professor just felt a disturbance in the force

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The man who wrote Git and the Linux kernel in C admits he vibe-coded Python. Somewhere, a CS professor just felt a disturbance in the force
@rekko_12 6mo

:(
1. @pulsar_sp 6mo
  
  what if you wanted to
@pulsar_sp 6mo

but bot with memes said
@pulsar_sp 6mo

'bout joe mama
@imfreetodowhatever 6mo

i hate the fact this will give cred to vibecoders and (their) managers who will just ignore the fact he's been doing kernel most of the internet and tech relies upon for twice the time the average vibecoder's been alive
1. @tema3210 6mo
  
  Let's not forget he's a PhD in CS - that allows him to vibecode, because he knows what good and what bad code is, and i don't believe he just let the ai go on its own way to produce the slop it tends to love so much
  
  @kostikdodik 6mo
  
  Back in my roots it was told that if you can't write code without ide, you must not use ide. I guess the same rule works for vibe coding ten tines better
  
  @tema3210 6mo
  
  Agreed for vibecoders, but for ide it's kinda meh, goto definition is ultimate tool
  
  @deadgnom32 6mo
  
  it isn't a IDE-only feature. you just need a language server
  
  @tema3210 6mo
  
  Kinda true, but given what LSP servers can do today... The IDE is text editor with ide like plugins, the old ide is lsp now
  
  @qtsmolcat 6mo
  
  Sometimes, you just don't want to write every function and parameter by hand while flipping between documentation and vim :)
  
  @kostikdodik 6mo
  
  Point is in ability to do so which is believed to be the proof of your skills
  
  @mrYakov 6mo
  
  How it even possible to be able to write code ONLY in IDE ? Its basically text editor with a lot of helper tools, neither of them are critical to actual writing code
  
  _ 6mo
  
  For that you need to be aware of the tools your IDE invoke. It's quite easy to find out you can modify code with any other text editor, but finding what compiler are used when you click on IDEs buttons and how to use it directly can be quite hard if nobody ever explained it to you
  
  @NaNmber 6mo
  
  Maybe true if you are a C dev who writes everything by yourself instead of using libs or are using man pages, grepping for lib api ref from readme files, etc. In web it would be such a pain that an ide with lsp and inline warning/errors is a must have otherwise you would go insane
  
  @Daonifur 6mo
  
  I prefer to without an IDE but it's hard to find programming languages with compilers that allow this. TinyC is nice for this reason
  
  @DerKnerd 6mo
  
  you could try go
  
  _ 6mo
  
  Wdym "compilers that allow this" ?
  
  @dsmagikswsa 6mo
  
  Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters.
2. @qtsmolcat 6mo
  
  Good "vibe" coding isn't really vibe coding at all, because vibe coding implies the person isn't doing basically any of the work and really doesn't understand what the code does
  
  dev_meme 6mo
  
  truth nuke
@RiedleroD 6mo

I will note that the only vibecoded part is 400 lines of python (around 40% of the LoC in this repo) that visualizes the actual main part of the code, written entirely by hand in C - AS A LEARNING PROJECT so this is twice removed from being in production. and people are going nuts over it. laughable imo
1. dev_meme 6mo
  
  it's twitter mostly going nuts over it
  
  @RiedleroD 6mo
  
  close. it's telegram. point being?
  
  dev_meme 6mo
  
  eng is my second language, quite stupid of me to not finish the sentence
  
  @RiedleroD 6mo
  
  ah I see what you meant now
  
  @RiedleroD 6mo
  
  haven't been on twitter in years, but the fact it's been posted here like it says anything about linus and AI just irked me…
@blue_bonsai 6mo

Where are credits to me?
@blue_bonsai 6mo

Thank me later, liberals.
Егор 6mo

He probably got an ad contract from google, that’s it.
@blue_bonsai 6mo

True.
@blue_bonsai 6mo

I got him mad.
@blue_bonsai 6mo

Dumb clanker.
@DerKnerd 6mo

your loss :D
1. @Daonifur 6mo
  
  I make games. If it's not appropriate for game dev or normal business use I try not to use it
  
  @DerKnerd 6mo
  
  what do you mean by normal business use? I code nearly all my webstuff in go. Works good
  
  @Daonifur 6mo
  
  Stuff aside from web dev
dev_meme 6mo

https://t.me/devs_chat/151003
dev_meme 5mo

what does this have to do with linus torvalds doing a lil bit of vibecoding in his side-project?
dev_meme 5mo

tl;dr
dev_meme 5mo

this wasn't a bot
1. @RiedleroD 5mo
  
  true, it was a pedo
  
  dev_meme 5mo
  
  huh

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