🛠️Torvalds Blames AI for an Oversized Linux 7.3-rc2 Release
TL;DR
Linus Torvalds called Linux 7.3-rc2 a 'full fat' release candidate and joked that AI is the easy thing to blame for the volume. He found no single cause: filesystems, drm, networking and bpf all sent sizable fix pulls into what is normally the quiet week.
Linus Torvalds called Linux 7.3-rc2 a 'full fat' release candidate and joked that AI is the easy thing to blame for the volume. He found no single cause: filesystems, drm, networking and bpf all sent sizable fix pulls into what is normally the quiet week.
Key Points
Posted in his Sunday kernel update on Sep 6 to the LKML
rc2 is normally the quietest window of a cycle; this one was not
A forgotten EDAC pull explains only a small slice of the bulk
Follows his August claim that AI made huge kernel updates the new normal
In May he said AI bug reports left the security list almost unmanageable
Why It Matters
Maintainer bandwidth, not model capability, is turning into the bottleneck as AI-assisted contributions inflate every merge window.
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Why does this matter?
Maintainer bandwidth, not model capability, is turning into the bottleneck as AI-assisted contributions inflate every merge window.
What happened?
Linus Torvalds called Linux 7.3-rc2 a 'full fat' release candidate and joked that AI is the easy thing to blame for the volume. He found no single cause: filesystems, drm, networking and bpf all sent sizable fix pulls into what is normally the quiet week.
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