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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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...and 99.9% of what it identifies as errors either aren't, or are so minor they're irrelevant. And "fixing" them breaks piles of other code.
Projects that hasd no more than a dozen requests a year are now getting swamped with hundreds of requests a day. People in the third world are using agents to generate thousands of broken, garbage "patches" to claim money.
But why would Torvalds give a shit hey ? He can fuck over those people just like he did with C++ developers.
I would also be afraid of this. How valid are the results of the LLMs? I sure there must be quite a few AI found exploits but the severity or legitimacy of all the returned AI evaluations and fixes can't possibly have a uniform quality.