Linux kernel maintainers drop the Assisted-by AI tag; Torvalds backs AI use by competent devs, rejects drive-by patches
Linux kernel maintainers, at the Maintainers Summit in Prague, decided to deprecate the Assisted-by tag, so contributors no longer have to disclose AI use in submissions. Linus Torvalds says competent developers should use AI as a tool, but wants to discourage "clueless" drive-by patches from people who do not understand the code. Greg Kroah-Hartman reports that AI-generated bug reports have shifted from low-quality "slop" to real, valid findings, which now adds workload for overworked maintainers. This is an opinion column on development policy, with no vulnerability, exploitation or incident described.
Detalhes técnicos
- Torvalds identifies two separate problems exposed by AI: a large codebase in which AI finds real bugs, adding to maintainer workload, and contributors who generate patches without understanding the code.
- Christian F.K. Schaller (Red Hat) created the open source project hw-harness, which helps work out hardware behavior in order to write Linux drivers, including by reverse-engineering Windows drivers.
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Linux kernel maintainers drop the Assisted-by AI tag; Torvalds backs AI use by competent devs, rejects drive-by patches
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Linux kernel maintainers, at the Maintainers Summit in Prague, decided to deprecate the Assisted-by tag, so contributors no longer have to disclose AI use in submissions. Linus Torvalds says competent developers should use AI as a tool, but wants to discourage "clueless" drive-by patches from people who do not understand the code. Greg Kroah-Hartman reports that AI-generated bug reports have shifted from low-quality "slop" to real, valid findings, which now adds workload for overworked maintainers. This is an opinion column on development policy, with no vulnerability, exploitation or incident described.
Technical Details
- Torvalds identifies two separate problems exposed by AI: a large codebase in which AI finds real bugs, adding to maintainer workload, and contributors who generate patches without understanding the code.
- Christian F.K. Schaller (Red Hat) created the open source project hw-harness, which helps work out hardware behavior in order to write Linux drivers, including by reverse-engineering Windows drivers.