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A report just in from the Kernel Maintainers Summit on 8 October reveals just how full AI slop the Linux kernel project has gone. And so has project leader Linus Torvalds.

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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing in this article hints to "slop". Or you and I have very different definitions.

And if you come around with a claim like that is prefer a link to an accepted PR or patch any day.

[–] fancy_pants@reddthat.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd trust a guy who tamed hundreds of nerds writing code for three decades with taming autocomplete

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is by far the best summary of my own thoughts I've read so far, thank you! ❤️

[–] fancy_pants@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Happy to hear this, like and subscribe to read more edgy comments ;)