"Linus Torvalds has started playing with vibe coding. Yes, really! He's using Google's Antigravity AI assistant to generate parts of a new hobby project rather than writing all the code himself. In doing so, he has become the highest-profile programmer yet to adopt this rapidly spreading, and often mocked, AI-driven programming. Mind you, Torvalds is not using this on the programs that made him famous, Linux and Git, or even his best-known hobby program, the diving program SubSurface."
"He openly acknowledges that he leans on online snippets when working in languages he knows less well. Who doesn't? For years, Stack Overflow was the go-to site for programmers wanting fast answers and code snippets to answer their technical questions. Now, AI chatbots such as Microsoft CoPilot, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek have largely replaced it among developers seeking quick fixes for programming problems."
Linus Torvalds used Google's Antigravity AI assistant to generate Python code for a hobby audio project called AudioNoise while hand‑coding the C components. AudioNoise is a trivial side project focused on digital audio effects and signal processing that followed his work building physical guitar pedals, GuitarPedal. Torvalds acknowledged relying on online snippets when working in less familiar languages and described the Python visualizer as 'basically written by vibe-coding.' AI chatbots and tools like Microsoft CoPilot and ChatGPT have largely replaced Stack Overflow for quick programming fixes. Vibe programming remains risky for serious projects, but Linux developers use AI tools for maintenance tasks.
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