‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him

The Linux creator calls vibe coding 'a wonderful way to find joy in programming,' but not for running Linux development. (Finding bugs is OK.) ...
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Linus Torvalds rebukes anti-AI stances in the Linux kernel code review process

AI-generated slop code has been a plague for some open-source projects, namely but not only Gentoo Linux, Curl, and Ghostty, limiting or outright banning LLM-created contributions. And yet, just like ...
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Google's Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs

Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI ...
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Linux Kernel Will Accommodate AI-Assisted Code, But Humans Are Still Liable

The Linux kernel community has formally clarified that it will allow contributors to use AI coding tools, provided a human takes full responsibility for the results. The new documentation for "AI ...
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Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code – here’s how it works

NAPA, Calif. — In the immortal words of song developer Pete Townshend, “Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) I really wanna know!” Linux kernel maintainers have the same question: Who ...