Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by ryandrake on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:24PM
(#50368696)
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.
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