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Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

then distros need to start rejecting any linus contributed code and fork the kernel.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago

Just what the Linux community needs, more fragmentation

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm or not and that makes me uneasy.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

The idiocy is self-explanatory.

[–] nykula@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

A fork would need lots of initiative from existing kernel developers. Distro people are more of userspace integrators, less system programmers. I think distros will experiment with rebasing against different kernels, maybe a revival of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD or something. At the end of the day though, it's up to laptop and phone manufacturers whether to put money into developing hardware support on top of those.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly you'd have to fork an entire distro because at this point shameless AI development is taking place from the bottom to the top. Debian, KDE, kernel, etc.