'Given enough compute, all bugs are shallow?' VC riffs on Linus's law for AI coding
saranormous · x · 2026-10-07
Investor Sarah Tavel riffs on Linus's law — 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow' — by swapping in compute: 'given enough compute, all bugs are shallow?' A pointed one-liner on the industry bet that massive compute and AI coding agents can brute-force software correctness away.
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