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Kernel Summit: "The time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel." -- Linus Torvalds reacting to AI assisted code contribution flood (lemmy.world)
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"Torvalds said that the time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel. People like Kroah-Hartman have spent years trying to teach people how to contribute; it is time to stop doing that, he said."

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/

It is difficult to summarize exactly how Linus got to this point. Most of the discussion at this years Summit appears to have been related to AI assisted code and how the maintainers are dealing with the increase in code submissions to LKML. Many of the maintainers expressed varying levels of frustration with AI assisted drive-by code submissions. Linus' train of thought is that they make it intentionally more difficult for humans to contribute. A later suggestion of his was to create an AGENTS. md that makes generating kernel code expensive in compute and token time.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hey at least he just came out and said it. No overly-sanitized corporate lingo statement, just "eh, I was wrong, so let's figure out how to improve this process".

What's the big deal?

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linus has shut down criticism of LLM generated code in the kernel and now it's causing problems, as many people pointed out it would. Linus allowed and encouraged this and now he's upset about the bed he made.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Linus is very outspoken about his opinions. That should come as no surprise.

That said, I don't necessarily disagree with him here. There are far too many people who, at any mention of AI involvement with a codebase, immediately scream "SLOP" and "VIBECODED" without even trying to consider how it was used. And yes, there is no shortage of idiots who vibecode absolute slop, but there are also plenty of very talented devs who use it as just another tool in their toolbox, so to speak, and those are the people who will ensure they understand the code and make sure it works like it's supposed to before committing.