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

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social · 24 hours ago

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

HelloRoot@lemy.lol · edit-2 23 hours 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.

Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social · 22 hours 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