🛠️Torvalds: AI Fine for Competent Devs, Not Drive-By Patches
TL;DR
Linus Torvalds says competent developers should use AI as a tool, while drive-by patches from people who don't understand the code are the real problem. Kernel maintainers also dropped the 'Assisted-by' disclosure tag at their Prague summit.
Linus Torvalds says competent developers should use AI as a tool, while drive-by patches from people who don't understand the code are the real problem. Kernel maintainers also dropped the 'Assisted-by' disclosure tag at their Prague summit.
Key Points
Maintainers Summit in Prague: Sasha Levin said the 'Assisted-by' tag is deprecated, so AI use needs no disclosure
Poor code is still rejected whatever its origin
Torvalds names two problems: real AI-found bugs that overload maintainers, and patches written without understanding
Greg Kroah-Hartman says AI bug reports went from slop to useful
Red Hat's Christian Schaller built the hw-harness tool to help reverse-engineer hardware behavior for drivers
Why It Matters
The most conservative codebase in open source is settling on a quality bar instead of a disclosure rule. Other projects will copy that framing.
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