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Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race. (thenewstack.io)
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They got to him

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[–] 100 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

It seems that after the initial AI-generated patches there's been good discussion amongst the kernel devs about sorting out the issues, and a few revisions already that have tidied things up a bit.

So if after all that there ends up being a good performance improvement directly from a revised AI-created patch, what do I do with my pitchfork? Still raised angrily? Half-mast? Do I just let the torch smoulder?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Wonder how much time it had taken without AI

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago

    Torvalds had spent 18 months running a broken version of his own fix for the page-cache reference-counting bottleneck, while other developers had encountered problems with their approaches.

    The article mentions he had been working on solving the issue for 18 months already... so at least that long.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago*

    I'm still mad because the source is still tainted. You can guarantee that the contributions of unwilling people, { who 1) did not intend their work to be used by a for profit LLM, and 2) actively do not want their work used by an LLM at all }, is part of these changes.

    Scraping isn't reading, etc etc. But also when did we just stop respecting people's wishes with the stuff they post? Like I made my own word scramble js script because a website owner didn't get back to me on whether I could use theirs, even though the script is right there to copy paste.

    These companies just did the yolo founder-disrupter impatient thing when they could have been chill and done this all legit.

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