125
Kernel Summit: "The time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel." -- Linus Torvalds reacting to AI assisted code contribution flood (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
48 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

"Torvalds said that the time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel. People like Kroah-Hartman have spent years trying to teach people how to contribute; it is time to stop doing that, he said."

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/

It is difficult to summarize exactly how Linus got to this point. Most of the discussion at this years Summit appears to have been related to AI assisted code and how the maintainers are dealing with the increase in code submissions to LKML. Many of the maintainers expressed varying levels of frustration with AI assisted drive-by code submissions. Linus' train of thought is that they make it intentionally more difficult for humans to contribute. A later suggestion of his was to create an AGENTS. md that makes generating kernel code expensive in compute and token time.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Okay, true. But is there a better interpretation of "opened the floodgates by welcoming LLM code with open hands" than "look, he said he used it recently, so he demonstrated that he is fine with slop in the kernel"?

Trying to understand what the hell it would mean to say he "welcomed it with open hands" would mean and I assumed they incorrectly took him recently saying he experimented with llms to mean he pushed code written by it. Apparently like half the linux people here thought/assumed that.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent