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The use of LLM assistants for kernel development
By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onsl [...]
David Hildenbrand worried that he would end up dealing with contributors who simply submit his questions to the tool that generated the patch in the first place, since they are unable to explain the code on their own. Meanwhile, Levin's first attempt to disclose LLM usage with a Co-developed-by tag drew an amused response from Andrew Morton, who seemingly had not been following this conversation. Within a few milliseconds of the posting of the call for topics for the 2025 Maintainers Summit, there were two separate proposals (from Stoakes and Jiri Kosina) on the issue of AI-based tools in the kernel workflow; they have sparked discussions that will surely have progressed significantly by the time this article is published.
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