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Torvalds: 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' News
Linus Torvalds told the Linux kernel mailing list that the project will not take an anti-AI stance, rejecting what he called social-warrior attitudes toward developers who use AI tools and telling objectors they can fork the kernel.
Flathub bans AI 'slop' apps - and data shows 73% of them were already abandoned News
After Linux app store Flathub moved to ban AI-generated 'slop' applications, a developer tracked 120 flagged repositories and found 88 of them - 73% - had been abandoned or deleted from GitHub within months, turning an anecdote into a measured fact.
A consultancy is charging $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code News
A boutique agency is openly marketing a service to remove AI-generated 'slop' from codebases at $10,000 a week, and a front-page Hacker News debate showed developers increasingly see reviewing incoherent AI pull requests as a real, expensive liability.
The best free AI model just landed — but almost nobody can run it at home News
A powerful open model anyone can legally download has reignited the open-vs-closed debate — but it's so large that 'open' now means 'open if you own a small server.'