Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage'

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duxup · 5h ago

Not much info on what exactly was "garbage" about it other than talking about the timing of the request.

tssva · 2h ago

A link is provided in the article which will take you directly to Linus's message on the kernel mailing list.

stockresearcher · 5h ago

"Sundar Pichai said over 30% of code at Google is now generated by AI."

duxup · 5h ago

Gotta wonder. I do run across code and sometimes think "Come on man, I can't imagine you even looked at this and really thought about it ..." Usually I mean that semi sarcastically, now maybe literally.

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Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage'

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