Linus Torvalds on using AI for hobby coding and Linux kernel review
Overview
Linus Torvalds says he uses AI to build things outside his expertise, such as a user interface for a guitar pedal project he wrote in C. He calls AI a wonderful tool for beginners.
He also warns that Linux kernel maintainers are stressed by AI-generated patches and bug reports.
Torvalds says AI review tools such as Sashiko are now appearing on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. He reports that some subsystem maintainers expect patches to be reviewed before they are accepted. These are his statements as reported by ZDNet, and the report does not document the tools' accuracy or how widely the review expectation applies.
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AILinus Torvalds says he uses AI to do things he is bad at, such as building a user interface for a guitar pedal project he wrote in C. He says AI is a wonderful tool for beginners, but warns that maintainers are stressed by AI-generated Linux kernel patches and bug reports. Torvalds says AI review tools like Sashiko are now appearing on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, with some subsystem maintainers expecting patches to be reviewed before acceptance.
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