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Beware - this was Torvalds' fever dream of suddenly discovering vibe coding and unleashing it on the kernel like a five year old with candy.

Expect catastrophic problems. There is likely a lot of slop in the code now + testers already found race conditions.

Torvalds' behavior in the past few weeks has been alarming.

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Which will just put pressure to improve the testing situation, not necessarily change stance on AI written patches. In fact AI is quite good at catching issues and root causing them back to recent changes so they could automate that journey a bit better as well to fill in any gaps not caught at review time.

Remember, you are "not allowed" to criticize Linus about how he uses LLMs on patches he himself doesn't understand in the Linux Kernel, despite screaming at others in doing the exact same thing (with him and Claude introduces a bug in the process).

This is especially with C code which has hundreds of foot-guns and you can just look at how Linus does not care about code quality in something as critical like an OS kernel and then carelessly introduces a race condition.

If that was anyone else and Linus caught it, they would be completely smoked by his wrath in the mailing list.

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