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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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[-] SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Wonder how much time it had taken without AI

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 19 points 1 day 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.

this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2026
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