I'm with Linus

20 October 2026 · Geekery, Technology, AI

Old tools on a workshop wall, with one new tool glowing among them

The Luddism is getting crazy.

I follow plenty of forums and subreddits, many of them on AI. Western society was polarized before, and the recent heated discussions on AI become yet another symptom of what ails us.

What that ailing is can be discovered by exploring TEG and is not the subject of this post. The sentiment of Linus Torvalds is. He is the creator and maintainer of Linux.

I have been a Linux user since 1999 and have followed his journey closely. When AI came to the fore, I watched his take on it evolve until it settled on this:

I’m with Linus on this. AI is a tool one can embrace for efficiency or oppose to retain inefficiency. As long as you understand the tool and the output, the tool of choice is less significant.

Link to this post: https://isene.org/2026/10/Linus-On-AI.html

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