Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow

Perhaps the most famous low-level systems programmer has tried "vibe coding" for himself – and he seems to be enjoying it.

Linus Torvalds is best known as the leader of the Linux kernel project, the single biggest FOSS project. It's not the only thing he works on, though. A few days ago he revealed his latest side project, AudioNoise, which he describes as creating "random digital audio effects" using the "random guitar pedal board design" he unveiled last year. The README file contains something unexpected:

Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters – and that's not saying much – than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man – me – and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

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