"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."
"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."
"Google's Antigravity LLM has been winning other friends of late, including Register columnist Mark Pesce, who wrote that " vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software." Some other big names in the world of FOSS have also come out in favor of LLM coding assistants recently, including Redis creator Salvatore "Antirez" Sanfilippo, who wrote " don't fall into the anti-AI hype." Said hype is, of course, a subject about which Torvalds opined previously."
Linus Torvalds revealed a side project called AudioNoise that generates random digital audio effects based on a random guitar pedal board design he unveiled previously. The project's README notes that the Python audio visualizer was created through 'vibe-coding' and that Torvalds used Google's Antigravity LLM to implement the visualizer after cutting himself out of the process. Several notable figures in open source have recently praised LLM-assisted coding, including Mark Pesce and Salvatore Sanfilippo, with arguments in favor of personalized software and skepticism toward anti-AI hype. Torvalds has maintained a more moderate stance on LLM coding tools.
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