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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[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly you'd have to fork an entire distro because at this point shameless AI development is taking place from the bottom to the top. Debian, KDE, kernel, etc.

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