themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoLinus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choicewww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square203fedilinkarrow-up1238file-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.mltechnology@piefed.social
arrow-up1238external-linkLinus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choicewww.xda-developers.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square203fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.mltechnology@piefed.social
minus-squareell1e@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·12 hours agoHe might consider himself forced to use it to find bugs. He wouldn’t be forced to use it to write the fix. (Now you might say he wasn’t or isn’t, but even if that were true for the kernel at large this doesn’t seem to be: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/10/linus-torvalds-says-ai-has-made-huge-linux-kernel-updates-the-new-normal/5285268 And this seems like mostly to be on Linus, for not stepping in here.)
He might consider himself forced to use it to find bugs. He wouldn’t be forced to use it to write the fix.
(Now you might say he wasn’t or isn’t, but even if that were true for the kernel at large this doesn’t seem to be: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/10/linus-torvalds-says-ai-has-made-huge-linux-kernel-updates-the-new-normal/5285268 And this seems like mostly to be on Linus, for not stepping in here.)