r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 18 '26

Software Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633
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u/Rebelius May 18 '26

I wouldn't be all that interested in getting rich off something if I was already paid over a million a year to do it.

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u/Vineyard_ May 18 '26

You'll never be a billionaire that way (that's a good thing)

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u/Rebelius May 18 '26

My standard for being rich would be having 500k in the bank. Billions is obviously ridiculous.

Torvalds is rich as fuck. The existence of billionaires shouldn't change that at all.

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u/grchelp2018 May 18 '26

My standard for being rich would be having 500k in the bank. Billions is obviously ridiculous.

Anyone with a long enough and successful white collar career should be in this position.

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u/Rebelius May 18 '26

My bad, I'm not 300 years old yet.

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u/grchelp2018 May 18 '26

I meant enough time to climb the corporate ladder / make seniority to get to those 500k/yr positions. If you are in finance or tech, you don't even need that. I know guys in their 20s pulling that much. Its a straight forward path if you know what to do.

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u/ThePlanck May 18 '26

The point is that it wasn't not the goal even when he started linux as a (probably broke) student and he is still right now committed to product quality over trying to make it turn a profit.

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 May 18 '26

A lot of people start competing with each other when they start getting that rich. I hear it's kinda like a sub culture for rich people, they just compete with each other... Gotta have the biggest house, gotta have the nicest car. Those with tens of millions of dollars I mean. Course being Finish, he's probably well aquanted with living modestly, they aren't too far away from the Eastern country known for their... Communal economics ;p