▲ 15 ▼ 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) submitted 2 days ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 5 points 2 days ago (5 children) ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social [S] 4 points 2 days ago* (4 children) Did AI generate that race condition commit of linus? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 point 23 hours ago Maybe Linus saw the race condition but just fixed it badly, again. https://dirtycow.ninja/ "This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me 11 years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a... but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by [another] commit." permalink fedilink source parent [–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 18 points 2 days 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MangoCats@feddit.it 4 points 19 hours ago I believe Linus has clearly stated his position that he is specifically responsible for the bug, regardless of whether he uses LLM agents, Ouija boards, or vim to create it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social [S] 5 points 1 day 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social [S] 4 points 2 days ago* (4 children) Did AI generate that race condition commit of linus? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 point 23 hours ago Maybe Linus saw the race condition but just fixed it badly, again. https://dirtycow.ninja/ "This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me 11 years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a... but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by [another] commit." permalink fedilink source parent [–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 18 points 2 days 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MangoCats@feddit.it 4 points 19 hours ago I believe Linus has clearly stated his position that he is specifically responsible for the bug, regardless of whether he uses LLM agents, Ouija boards, or vim to create it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social [S] 5 points 1 day 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 point 23 hours ago Maybe Linus saw the race condition but just fixed it badly, again. https://dirtycow.ninja/ "This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me 11 years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a... but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by [another] commit." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 18 points 2 days 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MangoCats@feddit.it 4 points 19 hours ago I believe Linus has clearly stated his position that he is specifically responsible for the bug, regardless of whether he uses LLM agents, Ouija boards, or vim to create it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social [S] 5 points 1 day 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 4 points 19 hours ago I believe Linus has clearly stated his position that he is specifically responsible for the bug, regardless of whether he uses LLM agents, Ouija boards, or vim to create it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social [S] 5 points 1 day 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 permalink fedilink source parent