Joe

demonstrated any actual competency in this domain

It may be that he/they have significant competency in this domain, just not publically or under this name/pseudonym.

I’ve personally made contributions under pseudonyms just to avoid employer paperwork/approvals, for projects that I’d rather not have my real name attached to, and for sharing in potentially hostile communities.

I’ve also developed software internal to companies that has never been released publicly.

In short … he doesn’t need to prove his prior credentials to you, me, or anyone. He may have some, he may not.

We can legitimately critique what he/they have done in this project all we like though.

Linus seems to be taking a perfectly pragmatic approach, given that AI is not going away short of WW3.

I can imagine some individual sub-system maintainers introducing various AI-roadblocks though.

I also expect this to be increasingly addressed (in general) with model & tooling improvements, giving more weight to higher quality reports and MRs, and more respect for project rules and processes. A mix of soft and hard gates, CLAs, improved early automated bug report & patch reviews and other CI gates.

We should use it to replace all those 0-token near-free existing automations, because it’s the future. We just need to connect personal agents to MCPs using admin credentials (or even an admin token vending machine MCP, since LLMs know all the cloud and enterprise APIs already)

AI dividends paying out in 3…2…TABLE NOT FOUND

AI hype and uncertainty is definitely influencing decision making, that’s for sure. If your company doesn’t have strong integrated product and architectural leadership, then managers across the company are probably grasping at straws, hoping to find some meaningful goals and ideas that stick. And lazy leaders, who traditionally rely on Gartner and similar feeds for trends and investment direction, probably think anything AI related is a safer bet than … well, anything else their underlings are proposing.

Hence the need to wrap sound decisions in a layer of AI. It’s BS, and many know it’s BS, but it seems necessary just now.

gwbasic on an XT here. Automate yourself out of that particular job. If not you, someone else probably will, or some expensive outside consultant will identify it for the chopping block. Find something of more value to do within the company, and slap an AI label on it for good measure. You are in the trenches now and you see the dysfunction… It’s likely the same company-wide, so rife with opportunity.

But higher satisfaction from those calling 911 for cookie recipes!