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ryandrake | on: AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Looks like AI is finally proving Linus's Law[1]: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

Open Source was supposed to prove this, but as it turns out, there weren't enough human eyeballs, and those eyeballs weren't looking for bugs. LLMs eyeballs see the entire codebase at once.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law

drivebyhooting | parent
The corollary is that given shallow enough eyes, all bugs are deep.
kulahan | root | parent
A mostly useless platitude since the solution is to simply not include only terrible reviewers as 100% of your staff in 100% of situations.
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