Post #3458003
2026-06-29 00:20 UTC
The Code Rabbit link is about software in general, not the Linux kernel in particular. In many ways the Linux kernel is an outlier among software projects. When it comes to LLMs, I don’t expect devs will be using lower standards for code reviews in quality, while some other teams definitely are doing light “LGTM” reviews of AI code.
The second link expresses a lot of concerns about plagiarism by AI. Certainly related care needs to taken for contributions to the Linux kernel. As far as I could tell, no specific cases of plagiarized code in the kernel were cited.
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@ell1e@leminal.space 2026-06-29 01:18
I agree the kernel devs think they can outsmart the LLM slop problem. But unless they were able to suddenly get way faster at reviews without a quality drop, which I doubt they did, this indicates it’s not working out: neowin.net/…/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-f… As far as I could tell, no specific cases of plagiarized code in the kernel were cited. You should look at the studies. Given the rate of it, in my opinion it seems like the question is rather where these plagiarized items are not whether they exist.