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

pseudolus 12 points 5 comments August 11, 2026
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JohnFen

That's truly worrisome.

cyanydeez

oh man, if Linus gets the AI psychosis and starts behaving like Github, is it time to panic then?

ButlerianJihad

"UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity." — Dennis Ritchie, "Unix: A Dialectic" (1989)

aic0d3r

that article may sound a bit scary, but in reality this is all a good thing if managed properly, unlike Micro$lop does. i have built and contributed to open-source projects at a light-speed rate, all thanks to bleeding edge ai dev workflows. projects who care about quality and security are already seeing a huge acceleration thanks to ai, while those who ignore the UNIX principle are getting bloated and hacked.

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