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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/10/linus-torvalds-says-ai-has-made-huge-linux-kernel-updates-the-new-normal/5285268
theregisterLinus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normalHe’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2
Replying to @General_Effort@lemmy.world
Ugh. If this makes my Linux systems less stable, I don’t even know what the fuck I’m going to do. I won’t go back to Windows, I’m not buying Macs (which have their own software problems anyway), and my hardware probably won’t work with any BSD variant.
Replying to @kescusay@lemmy.world
Ironically those are all bug fixes.
“But it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.”
Replying to @sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
The same way Windows is “fixing bugs” with AI? Large volumes of dubiously tested code is never a good idea
Replying to @mushroommunk@lemmy.today
The same way Windows is “fixing bugs” with AI? Large volumes of dubiously tested code is never a good idea
I think the point is the bugs are being FOUND with AI. Not fixed with AI.
It’s basically the same concept as open source in general. IE the average layman hears open source and they think “oh so every moron, malicious person etc… can add his own back doors into the code”, of course not, the official version is gated and reviewed. What’s happening is AI is basically serving as millions of idiots looking through the code for security flaws, and it’s finding them. Which then means the humans fixing it need to go into overdrive to fix them before they become zero days.
Replying to @TheFogan@programming.dev
They’re absolutely being “fixed” with AI too.
github.com/torvalds/…/coding-assistants.rst
It was a whole thing back and forth that Linus finally ruled on. It’s supposed to be under the purview of a specific human ultimately but as we’ve seen with countless other projects people get lazy fast with LLMs and testing and review does slip. I trust Linux overall to be better than many other projects yes, but to state AI is not doing development too when it’s very much allowed and discussed is blind to what’s been happening in the project.
GitHublinux/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst at master · torvalds/linuxLinux kernel source tree. Contribute to torvalds/linux development by creating an account on GitHub.