eikenberry

I just finished several months of interviewing and think that you must be projecting a bit. Every one of them included a coding interview with no AI use allowed.

This is why Free Software is important. It is about a lot more than just being open source.

Peer to peer networking.

For whatever a single anecdote is worth, there do still seem to be at least some jobs that require a decent amount hand-coding still. I just landed a new role and when I asked about AI usage policies, etc. they told me you can use whatever you want but don't count on it working well as the AIs are not that good at writing the code we work on. They suggested using it more as a explainer and for targeted tasks vs. agentic development.

While I'm not surprised by Linus using AI, I am a bit surprised Linus used Claude and not one of the open weights models. I know he's always been much more pragmatic than Richard but using a fully closed, proprietary system that is actively attempting to lock out the (more) open competition seems to go against his general history and preferences for free software.

Sounds similar to Salad (salad.com), except for the differing hardware.

What if they meant a real safe? The big metal kind.

But aren't you developing bad habits and learning patterns that won't work long term? Or do you think things will get cheap enough that you will be able to keep going with your current patterns post-subsidies?

That is a story about nature bouncing back. Just not the way the people doing it thought it would as it turned out other 'stuff' was a lot bouncier than the Cod were.

True.. but aren't they the only gov that can force a breakup?

It's only illegal if the law is enforced and the US federal government gave up on anti-trust enforcement a long time ago and any attempts to re-awaken it get nerfed quick.

> I think enough of these improperly constrained agent events have occurred that we can safely say this is misconduct of a level necessitating serious and concerted regulation of AI labs.

Why jump to regulation when just simple law enforcement would suffice. All of these OpenAI "rogue agent" events have been illegal, but no DA is enforcing them.