Code is cheap. Show me the talk. - nadh.in

Linus Torvalds once said, 'Talk is cheap. Show me the code'. That is no longer the case.

30 January 2026 Code is cheap. Show me the talk. TLDR; Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over. LLM coding tools have changed it fundamentally for the better or worse. "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." — Linus Torvalds, August 2000 When Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, made this quip in response to a claim about a complex piece of programming in the Linux kernel, [1] I was an oblivious, gangly, fledgling teenage n00b coder, learning by copy-pasting open source Perl and VB snippets over dialup internet. The quip has since become an adage in the software world. The g

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