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Educated computer nerd here. AI has fundamentally changed how you do CS in industry, it's completely unavoidable at this point and not using it in some capacity is doing yourself a massive disservice. It's able to catch edge cases we'd never have caught otherwise. The important part is indeed understanding what it's doing and keeping contributions organized/concise.
That doesn't make it any less scary from an ethics and model oversight perspective, but from the perspective of the project it is fundamentally just another tool. Linus appears to feel this way too. Frankly I'd be more concerned if there weren't people using AI on Linux, especially to validate kernel level security.
I mean, I use it because I'm forced to, but I don't feel much in productivity gains (not using agents though). Sometimes it's very, very handy, but most of the time it's like talking to the stupidest rubber ducky, and the frustration it gives me is not worth that imo. Others might make a different calculation, but ultimately if search engines didn't enshitify themselves into obsoletion, and LLMs didn't produce the worst, most verbose, and sometimes objectively wrong documentation, I'd not see an upside at all. But here we are.