“Torvalds said that the time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel. People like Kroah-Hartman have spent years trying to teach people how to contribute; it is time to stop doing that, he said.”

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/

It is difficult to summarize exactly how Linus got to this point. Most of the discussion at this years Summit appears to have been related to AI assisted code and how the maintainers are dealing with the increase in code submissions to LKML. Many of the maintainers expressed varying levels of frustration with AI assisted drive-by code submissions. Linus’ train of thought is that they make it intentionally more difficult for humans to contribute. A later suggestion of his was to create an AGENTS. md that makes generating kernel code expensive in compute and token time.

  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    20 days ago

    Linus, buddy, you’re the one that opened the floodgates by welcoming LLM code with open hands…

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      But he didn’t “welcome LLM code with open hands” really - he took a relatively neutral stance and said it needed to pass the same standards that human code does.

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
      1·
      19 days ago

      he didn’t. it’s more like him attempting to evaluate if it’s any useful, and news websites suddenly sending out misleading headlines that linus is now ‘vibecoding’ or smth

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      0·
      19 days ago

      That’s not remotely what happened. Does it make you feel better to turn the truth into a cartoon with no nuance and obvious villains? I don’t suspect you’ll be argued into being reasonable, but people reading the comments should know that you are spreading lies.

      Linus used an LLM to experiment in a branch. There is absolutely no evidence that he actually submitted any kernel code written by an LLM. He shouldn’t have to hide his experiments with technology because some people are mindless drones who will become enraged and lie about what he’s actually done.

      • entwine@programming.dev
        1·
        19 days ago

        There is absolutely no evidence that he actually submitted any kernel code written by an LLM.

        The person you replied to never made such a claim.

        Does it make you feel better to turn the truth into a cartoon with no nuance and obvious villains?

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      19 days ago

      Edit:

      Okay my bad, I shouldn’t put words in his mouth. I’ll let him speak for himself.

      Edit 2: Fixed grammatical ambiguity in the original

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        But he isn’t saying “damn people using AI”, is he?

        If you purposefully remove all nuance from what people say, you attribute to them a ridiculous position, but that’s your problem not theirs.