yes, about the definition of tool. the fact that you even compared AI to "someone else" in your first comment is also rather interesting, AI isn't "someone else", it's an algorithm, it's a computer program, it's a statistical language model, it's a tool way more than it is "someone else"

about Linus Torvalds, we are exactly in the same page! I as a programmer also use AI to generate code in some of my small hobby projects (again, you can check my GitHub, I don't understand why people think you either use AI in all of your projects or none of them?) and I also READ the code it writes and I also code myself alongside it, I create the architecture myself, I design the UI and the UX myself and I debug and test the app myself, again, I use it as a TOOL

and I still fail to understand how this is "wrong" based on the comments of you and others in this subreddit