I think you are misquoting Linus, I believe the mailing list was becoming unmanageable because of duplicate (and bogus?) AI reports:

AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work. Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience.

Also, a lot of software that people use is offline only, so there shouldn’t be any security vulnerabilities to be weary of (see notepad++ recent hack where you were hacked if you decided to update/install, but not if u just used the damn thingi).

Keeping your stuff that interacts with the internet up to date is important (browser, kernel, whatever), but offline stuff, less so (potentially risking a hack by updating especially in this new AI era where anyone can seemingly find exploits to update servers and whatnot).

Anyways we gotta be vigilant updating software nowadays.