There appears to be a few bad actors in the Lemmy community spreading ragebait for personal gain
In fact, the same mechanisms added at the beginning to catch bad human written code are the exact same that catch bad AI code
- No, the Linux kernel won't use AI to auto approve code for inclusion. And no plans to do so
- The Kernel actually has a huge number of maintainers. As part of the process, all patches are reviewed by a human who provide feedback as part of the process, and patches get bounced back and forth multiple time.
- Patches don't just magically go straight to master. The maintainers generally have their own branches where it goes to, then it goes to staging trees like Linux-Next. It goes through many eyes, and many tests by the end. The idea that AI code is overrunning the kernel is rediculous
- Maintainers also check that the code meets coding guidelines and is written properly, and solves the problem they are trying to solve. Yes, they also ensure the code isn't slop
- LLM's though might be used to identify obvious problems (bugs / coding guideline issues) with the code. These don't generate "slop" just find issues
- The only thing that matters is the human who submitted the code, as they should be checking the code submitted anyway (including LLM generated code).
Writing bad code isn't something new, and isn't unique to LLM's. Coders (and it seems some "journalists") have been writing slop since computers were invented.
The process hasn't gotten less stringent (probably even MORE stringent as there is an additional set of robotic eyes that can also check), and the same mechanisms that were put in place to catch badly written code 10 years ago, are still there now
i'm worried about the direction linux is going, and i am particularly worried about linus himself.
that said, the pivot to ai guy gets his bread buttered by being anti-ai. a number of people on the fediverse maintain their followings in part by constant, vociferous ai bashing.
i also hate ai! i think it's dangerous and one of the worst things humanity has yet created!
but i can read the mailing list, i can look at the patch, and this is so overblown it's nuts. nothing about what went on with this patch matches the descriptions people are giving it. someone even pulled a "i don't understand the rcu that well" quote in order to make their point, but that quote isn't from anyone really involved in the patch at all. it's just cherry picking a loosely-related message in order to have something to scream at.
and, i hate to say it, but this is pretty common with dave and his crew of hangers-on.
it frustrates me to no end that the people who are most visible in the anti-ai camp are people like this, because it undermines everything when it's so trivial to point out how they're blowing things up way out of proportion in order to maintain their rage machine
That is David's modus operanti for years now and he and hid crew routinely bash Foss projects and communities based on exaggerations and hearsay. These are people who will deliberately choose to disbelieve what people who know more tell them, just so that they can remain upset. I'm Speaking from multiple run-ins with them.
"pivot to ai" is the first i've heard of him. if you have examples of this behavior in other contexts, i'd love to have a look at it.
I don't maintain a pastebin or something. You can look at why he defederated lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want.