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@tante@tldr.nettime.org I make no claim to know how the man thinks, but I suspect no small part of this is a bit of FOSS realpolitik. Let's say Linus were to stand firm against use of AI use in the kernel. Commendable. But then the rate of commits remains stagnant. meanwhile some big institutional downstream kernel (say a consortium of Ubuntu and other for-profit distros) user goes and forks the kernel. Now there's the Linux Foundation kernel (kernel0) and several "AI friendly" kernels (kernelPrime) that get features added in more rapidly, customizable branches (kernel Lite, kernel Plus etc.) all enabled by rapid AI development. Complete with Ai induced sec vulns and just... bloat and shit. I'm not entirely sure that landscape is better. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way excusing it. But I can sortof understand it. The "Adapt or die" mentality.