Hobby GitHub repo shows Linus Torvalds vibe codes (sometimes)

Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds’ latest hobby project contains code that was “basically written by vibe coding,” but you shouldn’t read that to mean that Torvalds is embracing that approach for anything and everything.

Torvalds sometimes works on a small hobby project over holiday breaks. Last year, he made guitar pedals. This year, he did some work on AudioNoise, which he calls “another silly guitar-pedal-related repo.” It creates random digital audio effects.

Torvalds revealed that he had used an AI coding tool in the README for the repo:

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 ...