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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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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/linux@programming.dev/p/2509642/linus-torvalds-posts-his-first-ai-assisted-patch-to-the-linux-kernel-synthetic-test-clo

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[–] 19 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Unlike reviewing a human who writes code there is zero chance of AI learning from the past and making fewer mistakes in the future. At a least a human has a chance of becoming better at coding from review feedback.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 day ago (14 children)

    No? Are you not aware of the concept of "memories"? AI do indeed take feedback into account, if they're designed to.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    AI does not have memories.

    It has a comparatively small context window that makes things worse the more it fills up.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    You are mistaken. Some AI models do indeed have memories.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    They save some strings in a document to later read and "remember". Calling them memories is a reach.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    My point stands that they can learn from feedback. Your memories are only information in a virtual document, too. Just as susceptible to corruption, or misinterpretation.

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    Does an Alzheimer's patient learn things just because they read the same note every morning explaining the reality to them?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    No, their file system is corrupt. No reliable read or write access.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)

    The AI is no different from the girl in "50 First Dates (2004)". It has to go back and read the post-it notes every time you start a new session. It does not retain memory without writing shit down to read later.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The auto-generated memories I've seen it create are pretty inane: "always name variables container_ when in MySpecificClass". Not really learning engineering principles.

    Similar, I've found AGENT.md files might nudge it in the right direction, but as always it's a fuzzy matcher, not a learning engineer.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 day ago

    It's best to generate memories manually, but I've had good fortune with auto-generated so far. At least using Co-pilot.

    I have found it best to have another AI generate the agent.md - having a layer of interpretation can really clarify the information imparted.

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