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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 02 Sep 2026
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Since Linus spends most of his time reviewing changes to the code in the kernel, he's probably one of the few people I'd trust to have properly vetted any AI code he used.
That being said, since you have no idea what code was scraped to generate the fix, it seems to me that it might not be able to be licensed under the GPL, though I'm no lawyer.