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Other questions about AI remain open, like its ultimate economic impact, but whether AI is useful is not one of them; anyone who doubts its usefulness clearly hasn't actually used it.
Torvalds distinguishes unresolved questions about AI (like its economic effects) from the question of usefulness, which he says is settled, adding that skeptics simply haven't used AI themselves. ✦ AI generated
Linus Torvalds · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-16 · original ↗
There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
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- ·Some AI questions remain genuinely open
- ·Example: what AI's economic impact will be
- ·But "is it useful" is no longer one
- ·Doubters simply haven't used it
- ·Open: AI's ultimate economic impact
- ·Closed: whether AI is useful
- ·Skepticism traced to lack of hands-on use
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