{"id":289875,"date":"2026-07-15T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:10:07","slug":"linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/07\/15\/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off\/5271894\">Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/07\/15\/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off\/5271894\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/07\/15\/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off\/5271894<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-15 12:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"kicker \" style=\"\">ai and ml<\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle \" style=\"\">Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can &#8216;just walk away&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Chief penguinista Linus Torvalds has declared that Linux is not an &#8220;anti-AI&#8221; project, telling contributors who object they can either walk away or fork the kernel.<\/p>\n<p>On lore.kernel.org, the archive for Linux kernel mailing lists, reformed potty mouth Linus was responding to a discussion about some negative sentiments toward AI.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is one area where Torvalds said he was willing to \u201cabsolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer \u2026 Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that they can do the open-source thing and fork it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr just walk away.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ever the pragmatist, Torvalds described AI as a tool, \u201cjust like other tools we use. And it\u2019s clearly a useful one. It may not have been that \u2018clearly\u2019 even just a year ago, but it\u2019s no longer in question today.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who doubts that clearly hasn\u2019t actually used it.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In October 2024, the Linux kingpin branded 90 percent of AI as marketing hype, saying he hated the hoopla generated by the tech industry. He said at the time: \u201cI really don\u2019t want to go there, so my approach to AI right now is I will basically ignore it.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He predicted things would change in five years, though he has softened his stance in 21 months.<\/p>\n<p>AI can be a \u201csomewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from an \u2018it keeps finding embarrassing bugs\u2019 standpoint,\u201d Torvalds conceded this week. \u201cBut the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing \u2018La La La, I can\u2019t hear you\u2019 at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The solution, he said, is to make sure LLM tools help maintainers rather than cause them pain. \u201cWe\u2019re not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The kernel project continues to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/07\/15\/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off\/5271894\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/07\/15\/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off\/5271894 Publish Date: 2026-07-15 12:54:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.theregister.com\/260119.jpg?imageId=260119&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-289875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289877,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289875\/revisions\/289877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}