Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.

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    it gets down to whether experts are experts at everything. Linus is not an expert at anything outside of kernel maintenance. His opinions on whether we should use LLMs are null and void considering the massive effect on the planet. It’d be like if a nuclear engineer said we should be building more nuclear bombs for everyone to use, just so they could use nuclear engineer more freely. Like, their opinions about nuclear energy might be fine, but their opinions that have an effect on the entire planet are completely wack.

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      9 hours ago

      That’s a really good point. There’s loads of examples of this, like doctors don’t give good nutrition advice, et cetera.

      He doesn’t really need any latitude to offer an opinion on whether these tools should be used on the Linux kernel.

      Whether you should use an LLM to plan your shopping list, or understand your toddlers behavior, is not something you should listen to Linus about.