Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

destructdisc · 2 months ago

Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

red_tomato · 2 months ago

In this case it’s a two line change: change to round down instead of round up. I suppose it’s the latter where the AI assisted him in identifying which line should be changed.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c

schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

Absolutely unacceptable. I’m downloading Haiku right now.

Jhex · 2 months ago

Here is a more detail article about what actually happened

https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-torvalds-fixed-a-linux-bug-using-ai-highlighting-both-the-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-the-new-tech/

It sounds like AI helped find the issue and write NOTES about it, but Linus explains he basically had to force the AI assistant because it kept on giving up. Linus wrote the fix himself.

I’d like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am.

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 2 months ago

You should do that anyway.