'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such'

Today, it is hard to escape LLM bots and the endless slop they emit, but the Linux kernel might be largely safe … for now.

Linus Torvalds has spoken up on the contentious topic of LLM-assisted software development. Despite his previous guardedly positive stance, for now, he seems to have come out strongly against it in the context he cares about the most – developing code for the Linux kernel. But he also doesn't want the documentation to become a political battlefield over this point.

He was responding to a message from Oracle-affiliated kernel developer Lorenzo Stokes, which seems to us to be guardedly anti-LLM: "Thinking LLMs are 'just another tool' is to say effectively that the kernel is immune from this. Which seems to me a silly position."

Torvalds replied:

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