Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds' latest project contains code that was "basically written by vibe coding," but you shouldn't read that to mean that Torvalds is embracing that approach for anything and everything.
Torvalds sometimes works on small hobby projects over holiday breaks. Last year, he made guitar pedals. This year, he did some work on AudioNoise, which he calls "another silly guitar-pedal-related repo." It creates random digital audio effects.
Torvalds revealed that he had used an AI coding tool in the README for the repo:
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