2026-09-01 06:54 UTC
In his commit message:
[And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI
doing much of the grunt-work.
I’d like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times
stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we
should just write a report about it.
I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be
quite as stubborn as I am.
But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep
adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit
where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above.
This is basically a one-liner fixing a bogus “round_up()” to a
“round_down()”, but there were 24 patches adding more and more debug
information to this, and 18 kernel boot to finally narrow it down to
this. - Linus ]
Didn’t he state quite early on that LLMs were a good tool to spot bugs?
Found this from 3 years ago: blog.mathieuacher.com/LinusTorvaldsLLM/
Replies (2)
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@CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2026-09-01 07:26
Hackers use LLMs to spot odd exploits so it makes sense developers use them too. The usage of LLMs in development likely won‘t make Linux better or safer overall, because bugs and exploits wouldn‘t have been found by either side without it in the first place. Again, it‘s like pandora‘s box where Linus is kind of forced to use it. If that makes sense.
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@Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 2026-09-01 22:12
LLMs are a great tool for create bugs * Fuck Linus.