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Post #4393376
2026-08-05 17:43 UTC
today in the Linux kernel turning into slop: this is what LLM code reviews do in every project that uses them
you get spammed with exhausting, mostly irrelevant text from a machine that gaslights you if you disagree with it
you deal with human reviewers who think you’re incompetent if you ignore the LLM review, especially if it catches a bug by pure chance but it got lost in the output or stated in a way you couldn’t decipher
if you disagree with the LLM in matters of style or taste, both the machine and the humans will yell at you. all code bases must look the same. all code must be structured like garbage that sucks to read.
the most expedient and least painful way to deal with the LLM reviewer is to use an LLM or just go LGTM to the bot, and according to all research not paid for by the AI companies that will result in your codebase turning into unmaintainable broken slop.
and yet linus claims that this is just a tool, and the unavoidable future https://social.treehouse.systems/@pac85/117042964033491417
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there’s a lot of money and influence being poured into making the linux kernel utterly reliant on a bit of software that’s clearly unfit for purpose. that’s why all this shit is happening so quick: anthropic, OpenAI, and palantair pouring money into the Linux foundation, linus doing his little AI booster interviews, the Linux foundation pivoting even further into AI, linus using an alt-right meme to justify the kernel’s pro-LLM policy, the systemic exposure of maintainers to these tools
this is an attack, and all the people who assigned themselves the job of protecting open source against attacks are welcoming the attackers in
it doesn’t matter how obvious it gets that LLMs are a negative, because we are currently being betrayed by people with a financial and political incentive to betray us
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