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Linus Torvalds says LLM tools have become essential to his kernel work
Original: LWN: “[Linus Torvalds] took an old patch and had the LLM revise it; the result has made him unwilling to work *without*
Linux creator Linus Torvalds says an experiment with a large language model has changed how he works on the kernel. He took an old patch, had an LLM revise it, and found the tool could automatically update all the call sites of a function he had modified. The result, reported by LWN, has left him unwilling to work without an LLM. The comments are notable given his earlier skepticism about AI coding tools.
Why now: Torvalds is famously skeptical of hype, so his conversion to using LLM coding tools is a striking shift for the Linux community.
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- LWN: “[Linus Torvalds] took an old patch and had the LLM revise it; the result has made him unwilling to work *without* an LLM. … Why bother, he asked, to search for all of the call sites of a function he has just modified, when the tool can fix them all automatically?” Sounds… · argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org · 13
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