Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug (News)

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  What up nerds?

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  I'm Jared and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, January 12th, 2026.

• 00:14

  Have you heard?

• 00:15

  Stack Overflow is dead.

• 00:17

  Have you heard?

• 00:18

  Stack Overflow's revenue has doubled since 2022.

• 00:22

  The culprit on both accounts?

• 00:24

  Yeah, I don't even have to tell you.

• 00:26

  You know what it is.

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  With a scant 6,866 questions asked last month,

• 00:33

  Stack Overflow as we once knew it is now a relic of a bygone age.

• 00:38

  Oh well, let's get into this week's news.

• 00:41

  Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug.

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  VibeCoder is rejoiced after Linus Torvalds, the S-tier hacker and infamous curmudgeon,

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  pushed some Python code to his audio noise repo written by AI.

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  The commit message, quote, this is Google anti-gravity fixing up my visualization tool,

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  which was also generated with help from Google, but of the normal kind.

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  It mostly went smoothly,

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  although I had to figure out what the problem with using the built-in rectangle select was after telling anti-gravity to just do a custom rectangle selector, things went much better.

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  Is this much better than I could do by hand?

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