Not much info on what exactly was "garbage" about it other than talking about the timing of the request.
A link is provided in the article which will take you directly to Linus's message on the kernel mailing list.
"Sundar Pichai said over 30% of code at Google is now generated by AI."
Gotta wonder. I do run across code and sometimes think "Come on man, I can't imagine you even looked at this and really thought about it ..." Usually I mean that semi sarcastically, now maybe literally.
Not that it should matter, but Palmer hasn't worked for Google since 2021.