> He barks orders at cadre of human contributor agents and subsystem maintainer agents until the code looks the way he likes

That's called being a manager, not a vibe coder.

> Linus is the original vibe coder.

LoL.

Jesting aside, OpenHub lists Linus Torvalds as having made 46,338 commits. 45,178 for Linux, 1,118 for Git. His most recent commit was 17 days ago. [1]

That is a far cry from a vibe-coder, no? :-)

Bit unfair to call his leadership vibe-coding, methinks.

[1] https://openhub.net/accounts/9897