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| Type | Article |
| Author | Linus Torvalds |
| URL | https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg0sdh_OF8zgFD-f6o9yFRK=tDOXhB1JAxfs11W9bX--Q@mail.gmail.com/ |
| Note created | Mar 3, 2026 |
| Last updated | Mar 5, 2026 |
On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 at 13:20, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
Thinking LLMs are ‘just another tool’ is to say effectively that the kernel is immune from this. Which seems to me a silly position.
No. Your position is the silly one.
There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That’s just plain stupid.
Why? Because the AI slop people aren’t going to document their patches as such. That’s such an obvious truism that I don’t understand why anybody even brings up AI slop.
So stop this idiocy.
The documentation is for good actors, and pretending anything else is pointless posturing.
As I said in private elsewhere, I do \*not\* want any kernel development documentation to be some AI statement. We have enough people on both sides of the “sky is falling” and “it’s going to revolutionize software engineering”, I don’t want some kernel development docs to take either stance.
It's why I strongly want this to be that "just a tool" statement.
And the AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation, and anybody who thinks it is either just naive, or wants to “make a statement”.
Neither of which is a good reason for documentation.