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Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did AI generate that?

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Did AI generate that race condition commit of linus?

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

(sorry, I thought by "that" you meant my comment or the content of the link or something else)

As far as I understand, Linus did an LLM assisted coding session that resulted in code with a race condition. But to what extend he or the LLM is specifically responsibe for the bug, we don't know because he didn't share the session, only the result.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I thought he only now started using LLM's in commits to write code, based on the article.

But I haven't really followed him closely