SMRTR ProgrammingJan 12, 2026Ars Technica

Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)

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Linus Torvalds used Google's Antigravity AI coding tool to write Python visualization code for his holiday hobby project AudioNoise, a guitar pedal effects generator. He described the approach as 'vibe coding' and cutting out the middleman by letting AI handle the Python work instead of his usual 'monkey-see-monkey-do' programming approach.

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