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Satire, obviously. Linus Torvalds' rant against people who oppose AI in the Linux kernel for "religious reasons" or because they are "social warriors."

Linus' original email is here.

h/t b@mrrp.place for pointing out the original email from Linus.

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Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools, even if those tools require the blood of dozens of children fed into meat grinders.
Yes, BOCI was developed only through large-scale violation of law and requires the blood of a certain number of children (BOC) every month to continue functioning and yes, those children must be fed into meat grinders for the supercharged BOC intelligence. I realize that some people really dislike BOCI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-BOCI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. BOCI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. There are other questions around BOCI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint. But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do. The solution is to make sure those BOCI tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side. We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it. And no, BOCI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems with BOCI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time. Because it's not like human intelligence NOT enhanced by the blood of children fed into meat grinders is always all that great either. The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

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