Cool assumption. But pretty sure it's not how things work at all but sounds great...

What actually happens is that you have a long list of multiple maintainers reviewing , and multiple branches for testing, and multiple layers of review too.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainers.html . See that long list of maintainers for a start.

The actual policy is that everything ends up getting reviewed by a human. If I post a patch, it doesn't go straight to master

If it's not being properly tested and maintained, it gets dropped irrespective of what it is (remember devfs?)

Also, I'm not sure about the kernel specifically, but on projects I submitted code to, they often wanted complex patches broken down if possible.

Thank you. This is a tool just like everything else. Garbage in equals garbage out. Generative coding in the right hands is an extremely powerful tool.

It's a difference between kids playing with fireworks. (Vibe coders that know nothing about software development) And rocket scientists at NASA building a new shuttle. (Real developers with controlled thoughtful AI workflows)

It's hard to believe he's not also thinking about succession and actively mentoring younger folks. The Linux kernel is his baby and he seems enmeshed enough on the community level. He's smart enough to not simply leave it to chance.

Yeah. Linux maintenace becomes a paid subscription through the ai providers

I don’t know. People are creative. They’ll get burned and learn from their mistakes. At least, the ones who do will survive in their careers — then pass on the knowledge, repeat. So I imagine Linus will be replaced just fine when he retires. Wait until we’re 2 or 3 generations into using AI for development. It’s not like people are rocks; people don’t tend to just keep sinking.

of that generation

Ouch.

I think 'we' have about 20 years left in us. That's long enough for an entire new pet language to be born, surge, wane, and then die. ...or 27 entirely new web frameworks.

You have to vow to use a new fork (which someone else should totally create) which does not contain this one specific patch.

I'm still mad because the source is still tainted. You can guarantee that the contributions of unwilling people, { who 1) did not intend their work to be used by a for profit LLM, and 2) actively do not want their work used by an LLM at all }, is part of these changes.

Scraping isn't reading, etc etc. But also when did we just stop respecting people's wishes with the stuff they post? Like I made my own word scramble js script because a website owner didn't get back to me on whether I could use theirs, even though the script is right there to copy paste.

These companies just did the yolo founder-disrupter impatient thing when they could have been chill and done this all legit.

Maybe it did, but apparently the code was not properly reviewed initially, so there could be other hidden problems.
Of course that's the same for human made code, but there's a problem in only judging code from how it performs, and not actually understanding the code. And that seems to be the situation with a lot of AI code.

Only while there are still reviewers who care to review the slop. Which is a rare breed and will quickly soon vanish.