Vibe-coding, the AI-assisted form of software development, is having a moment. Numerous companies are selling vibe coding services , Google just launched a vibe-coding agent , and it also happens to be the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year . However, at the very same time that this new development model has surged to prominence, numerous critics have noted that it poses all kinds of problems for the industry. Primarily, it can make mistakes that ultimately have to be fixed by a human developer who has to untangle why the code is the way it is in the first place.

One person who seems surprisingly cool with it is Linus Torvalds, the progenitor of Linux. During a recent open source software convention in South Korea, Torvalds expressed some cautious support for vibe coding, althoug

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