Popular tech blogs do not promote products because of the goodness of their hearts, but for money.
Placing an article in a tech blog costs between $20,000 and $30,000, depending on the blog’s reputation, and everybody can do it.
So, it is not that the tech blogs are particularly enthusiastic about the Glasses; it’s more that Meta is throwing money left and right to promote them.
I’m happy that Linus takes his job seriously and catches such things even under tremendous stress. We are lucky to have him; he once again saved our collective asses from a lot of pain down the road.
The tweet was prejudiced and manipulative. The bottom part of the email was cut off, not revealing additional context. The focus was put on „Google engineer“, which is totally irrelevant. People here in the chat repeat that the developer is „Chair of the UNIX-Class Platform Specification“. So what? Why is this relevant at all? Apparently, even „Chairs of this and that“ still have a lot to learn.
Another point: I have seen many such „helper“ functions when dealing with LLM-generated code. Was this particular code LLM-generated? I don’t know for sure, but it certainly looks that way. So the headline could easily have been „Linus rejects LLM-generated garbage.“
Once again, we are lucky to have Linus, whatever his communication style may be.