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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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

(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.

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago

I believe Linus has clearly stated his position that he is specifically responsible for the bug, regardless of whether he uses LLM agents, Ouija boards, or vim to create it.

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Thanks, I thought he only now started using LLM's in commits to write code, based on the article.

But I haven't really followed him closely

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