← Back to context Comment by ozgrakkurt 11 hours ago Would be cool to see the live reaction of Rob Pike to this comment 2 comments ozgrakkurt Reply andsoitis 10 hours ago > Would be cool to see the live reaction of Rob Pike to this commentBased on everything public, Pike is deeply hostile to generative AI in general:- The Christmas 2025 incident (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/)- he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)- ideologically, he's spent his career chasing complexity reduction, adovcating for code sobriety, resource efficiency, and clarity of thought. Large, opaque, energy-intensive LLMs represent the antithesis. clktmr 9 hours ago > - he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)The whole article is an AI hallucination. It refers to the same "Christmas 2025 incident". The internet is dead for real.
andsoitis 10 hours ago > Would be cool to see the live reaction of Rob Pike to this commentBased on everything public, Pike is deeply hostile to generative AI in general:- The Christmas 2025 incident (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/)- he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)- ideologically, he's spent his career chasing complexity reduction, adovcating for code sobriety, resource efficiency, and clarity of thought. Large, opaque, energy-intensive LLMs represent the antithesis. clktmr 9 hours ago > - he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)The whole article is an AI hallucination. It refers to the same "Christmas 2025 incident". The internet is dead for real.
clktmr 9 hours ago > - he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)The whole article is an AI hallucination. It refers to the same "Christmas 2025 incident". The internet is dead for real.
> Would be cool to see the live reaction of Rob Pike to this comment
Based on everything public, Pike is deeply hostile to generative AI in general:
- The Christmas 2025 incident (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/)
- he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)
- ideologically, he's spent his career chasing complexity reduction, adovcating for code sobriety, resource efficiency, and clarity of thought. Large, opaque, energy-intensive LLMs represent the antithesis.
> - he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)
The whole article is an AI hallucination. It refers to the same "Christmas 2025 incident". The internet is dead for real.