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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
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It's especially essential to mark the code as AI generated. AI makes mistakes just as humans do. Problem is AI makes different kinds of mistakes than humans.
A human will tend to forget to do something they were supposed to do. An AI will do a bunch of unnecessary shit.
Also you can tell that a human didn't put a lot of thought into some code (no comments, sloppy variable names) so you're more likely to say "yeah ok, I used to make that kind of mistake when I was younger" and just fix it. AI generated code will have all kinds of comments which normally makes you more hesitant before making a change. It looks like someone really thought through what they were doing, but in reality it's something generated by an LLM and no real thought was given to the code.
Why is your code so messy that it needs comments everywhere? Comments should pretty much be reserved for special cases anyway