{"id":245433,"date":"2026-10-15T01:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/linus-torvalds-says-ai-is-a-gateway-drug-for-coding"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:50:24","slug":"linus-torvalds-says-ai-is-a-gateway-drug-for-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/linus-torvalds-says-ai-is-a-gateway-drug-for-coding","title":{"rendered":"Linus Torvalds says AI is a gateway drug for coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YKkEe-PxW10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/innovation\/linus-torvalds-uses-ai-to-write-linux-kernel-patch\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/innovation\/linus-torvalds-uses-ai-to-w\u2026nel-patch\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux creator Linus Torvalds says AI is like a \u201cgateway drug\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Linus Torvalds AI stance has softened as he says tools boost productivity but still create false bug reports. Read what his comments reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/innovation\/linus-torvalds-uses-ai-to-w\u2026nel-patch\/ Linux creator Linus Torvalds says AI is like a \u201cgateway drug\u201d Linus Torvalds AI stance has softened as he says tools boost productivity but still create false bug reports. Read what his comments reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}