Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

I am not sure anything about that is good.

I am not sure anything about that is good.

I mean it’s good and bad, basically AI is finding a bunch of serious zero days… which is causing a lot of updates to need to be happening now, and that is kind of open source philosophy of security by obscurity isn’t the goal.

AI is finding a bunch of serious zero days

According to Torvals/TFA:

most of this is just lots of tiny fixes. It’s pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound, networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code

most of this is just lots of tiny fixes.

If it’s anything like Claude on our codebase then:

const id = "foo"
// ^^^^^ WARNING!!!! GO MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO ALLOCATE THE MEMORY FOR THIS STRING!
// Here's an Enterprise String Implementation to guarantee this assignment works.
// Severity: High 🚨