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Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Is this the one where the LLM generated code introduced some severe bug (memory leak or buffer overflow or something), then Linus went on vacation and another dude cleaned it up?

https://lkml.iu.edu/2610.1/13698.html afaik

If yes, then it annoys me that the articles on this are so biased. Because it actually shows the middle ground reality of using LLMs in development instead of the utopia/dystopia extreme views we keep seing online.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    went on vacation and another dude cleaned it up

    the utopia/dystopia extreme views we keep seing

    It's almost like the person going on vacation comes away with a positive view, and the person cleaning up after them comes away with a negative view . . .

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Did AI generate that?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    ?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Did AI generate that race condition commit of linus?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    (sorry, I thought by "that" you meant my comment or the content of the link or something else)

    As far as I understand, Linus did an LLM assisted coding session that resulted in code with a race condition. But to what extend he or the LLM is specifically responsibe for the bug, we don't know because he didn't share the session, only the result.

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