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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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[–] -5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 child)

First of all, if a human makes a mistake it’s a learning opportunity. When a human misses a bug an LLM hallucinated, noone really learn from it.

Agents can "learn" from their mistakes within their harness.

You or the agent can add notes in the memory files or the repo level agents.md files, or standards and conventions files to look for those mistakes.

Most harnesses these days will spin up a new agent to do a review once the implementation is done, that agent will take memory files, agents.md files and other standards and conventions files into its context to know what to look out for so it won't make the same mistake twice

Claude code is even doing "dreaming" where it'll do a cron every night to look through all the conversations from the day for stuff it messed up on and add to its memory files to not do those same mistakes.

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  • [–] 6 points 15 hours ago

    You putting quotes around "learn" and "dream" is you admitting that they are not really doing either. LLMs don't think, learn, reason, analyse, design or anything else that require a human mind.

    You making a note in agents.md did not teach the model anything, it's a halfassed attempt to compensate for the fact that LLMs are INCAPABLE of learning. You need to create a new model trained on the new data you wish to incorporate, because when that phase is over the model is locked in.

    Have a look at the claude code leak and you will see how they actually prompt inject constantly to try to keep it on track and not do stupid shit. It has fucking CYBER ALZHEIMERS for gods sake.

    Look at that woman at meta who told an agent to suggest which emails to archive, explicitly forbidding it from deleting anything. Guess what? That internal monologue filled up the context and that instruction fell off the back of the truck, and the clanker happily started shredding emails until they literally pulled the plug.

    LLMs are somehow passing the Turing test for a subset of humans and its embarassing that the bar is apparently that low. The AI labs are doing their best to weaponize that and you fell for it.

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