Well, in a way most of the AI hype (like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce) are a thirst trap for CEOs.

A bit like selling candy with crack on the schoolground of a primary school…

Kroah‑Hartman consistently framed language choices in terms of reviewer workload rather than developer convenience. Linux has “over 5,000 developers” but “about 150 core maintainers that review the majority of the code,” a skew that drives his priorities. “We optimize for reviewers. We don’t optimize for developers because we have a lot of developers,” he said, suggesting Rust’s ability to enforce locking and lifetime rules at build time means reviewers can spend their limited bandwidth on logic rather than bookkeeping: “If it builds as a reviewer, I know it’s OK. I can look at the logic.”

That’s a great point. Living open source code must be readable and maintainable. Rust is an excellent match for that.