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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/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd argue the people who wrote the code for the various subsystems know more about it than the guys who "just" review and merge them.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That's a fair point that I hadn't considered