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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race.

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Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race.

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to build a Linux page cache fix that hit 23x read throughput, but kernel reviewers found a race before anything merged.

They got to him

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Yep. And the kernel did actually have a backdoor attempt at some point. And it was noticed too https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/10/Linux-Backdoor/

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