Once upon a time, Linus had a bit about Good Taste in code[1], but it's hard to see that thinking at play delegating code to a machine.

I'm not really shocked to see this happening, even though I remain disappointed. Not the sheer use factor, tools are tools in my humble opinion, but the disregard for the lowly hackers who established the foundations and culture that led here. That is going to die, as the exclusionary pressures build.

Unfortunate, I guess next maybe I'll wait for the Year of the Plan9 Desktop.

[1] https://felipec.github.io/good-taste/parts/1.html

> The fact that working on Linux code will now require corporate backing to pay for the AI will also aid in taking Linux away from the free software community

This isn't remotely true, it is fictional ragebait

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. Fork it, run it, make it better. That's the gift of GPL. Just because you can't spin it up on EC2 (yet) doesn't make it a worse kernel. Lots of hosting providers accept custom images.

Linus has been a corporate tool ever since he was forced to take a "retreat" for getting "counseling" for better behavior.

Powerful, aging maintainers who welcome the AI crutch and accelerate the demise of open source is something I would not have predicted, but here we are.

In mathematics similar events are taking place and some tenured professors sell out the next generation.