Linus Torvalds Uses Google Antigravity

69 pointsposted 2 days ago
by xnx
(github.com)

22 Comments

xorvoid

a day ago

I feel like the comments are taking away the wrong message from this. He used it to do the part of the project that he has poor knowledge/experience/capacity for. He needs a visualization but the project isn't about visualization. He's spent a lifetime coding in C, not writing python-based visualizations.

There's a big difference between vibe-coding an entire project and having an AI build a component that you lack competency for. That is what is happening here.

It's the same principle as a startup that builds it core functionality itself in-house and then uses off-the-shelf libraries for all the other uninteresting details.

DayGo

4 hours ago

2022: cute, llms can autocomplete a line correctly sometimes

2023: ok it got the whole function right, still just pattern matching though

2024: cool it banged out that component in one prompt, but it's just boilerplate

2025: it one-shot an entire app, whatever, just glue code

2026: nah man that's nothing, it's just filling in competency gaps for one of the greatest programmers of all time

skylurk

13 minutes ago

yes, but also

2026: llms can autocomplete a line correctly sometimes

999900000999

a day ago

>Add README and LICENSE file I'm pushing it out to github not because it needs to be public, but because of my policy of using the internet as my backups. And because it makes it so much easier to just sync between machines.

Very cool to see a legends side project. I'll check this out when I have time even though I can't understand C well.

the_biot

a day ago

That is truly sad :-(

numpad0

a day ago

What's truly "sad" is that it's ok if Google does it. It's apparently not ok when OpenAI, Musk, etc do literally the same thing.

This whole controversy reminds me of that Rhodesian designed shotgun marketed as "Street Sweeper" in the US. Making a tool is one thing. Brandishing its unsafe working end to potential customers in an attempt to impress them, alas, could lead to interesting situations...

rvz

a day ago

Depends.

This is on projects that are not serious. So I will treat it as such.

You should worry if vibe-coders submit patches to the Linux Kernel and they do not understand them.

appsoftware

2 days ago

It's official, vibe coding is legit.

wasmainiac

a day ago

No it’s not, there are so many issues yet to be solved. Privacy, responsibility, etc. It literally says nothing for prototyping, we have all done it.

_zoltan_

a day ago

it's always been.

wasmainiac

a day ago

You mean you want it to be.

_zoltan_

16 hours ago

I use it daily and it just works. If you haven't found your agentic workflow or you don't prompt it well, that's not an ecosystem problem.

wasmainiac

12 hours ago

That is my point it’s a you thing. Maybe your QC are lower than mine? I don’t know. No one else on my team uses it for that reason alone.

_zoltan_

9 hours ago

I don't know a single person who isn't just coasting at mag7 who isn't using genAI, and I know most of them are expected to do so.

whattheheckheck

a day ago

No tests, mypy type hinting or doc strings -- just pure vibes

forgotpwd16

a day ago

Depends on stage. Codex/Claude-generated code have hinting and doc strings, and will gladly add tests for every change you're doing. (That's why vibe coded projects have a gazillion tests.)