Literally burning the planet with power demand from data centers but not even knowing what it could possibly be good for?

That’s eco-terrorism for lack of a better word.

Fuck you.

I would agree with that.

Especially, “being 70%” finished does not mean you will get a working product at all. If the fundamentale understanding is not there, you will not getting a working product without fundamental rewrites.

I have seen code from such bullshit developers myself. Vibe-coded device drivers where people do not understand the fundamentals of multi-threading. Why and when you need locks in C++. No clear API descriptions. Messaging architectures that look like a rats nest. Wild mix of synchronous and async code. Insistence that their code is self-documenting and needs neither comments nor doc. And: Agressivity when confronted with all that. Because the bullshit taints any working relationship.

Copilot told him: “you are absolutely right!”

Yes. One good option now might be PocketPC or so. Look for “Palmtops”/“Handheld PCs”. New devices are popping up, the technology is there.

I’ve been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.

It’s like they’re designed solely for scrolling an endless feed of mind-numbing slop.

It is because they are exactly that.

There exist palmtops and handheld computers. I have a Gemini PDA running Sailfish OS Linux and it feels very different - like a small, cat-sized laptop. No problem running ssh or vim or ledger on it, or self-written guile apps, or cross-compiled Rust CLI tools. It is a computer, not a consumption device.

Linus doesn’t want to add guidelines to not fuel any side of the whole discussion […]

Sounds like “don’t feed the trolls”. And “don’t waste time with discussing spam”.

Apart from that, if GenAI could write good code, it would be acceptable. The thing to do is to scrutinize code for looking plausible while really being bullshit, or subtly wrong.

30 km is long?!

I commute 14 km on the bike in Munich. (When the weather is not really icy).

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