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Linux's Staging Area To Now Reject LLM-Generated Patches, Except For Real Security Fixes (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by misk@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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Note, LLMs are very good at finding suspect "security issues" in kernel code these days. But even with the best of the current and next generation tools, at least 1/3 of the results they generate are flat out wrong or harmful. So, if you think your LLM-found/fixed issue in a drivers/staging/ file is really valid, it's fine to submit it BUT you must have first tested it on the actual hardware for the driver, and described how you have done so, in order for us to be willing to take the change.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

Nice, I can get behind that policy. LLMs can be useful but only if you assume the output is wrong until proven correct. Using it to find potential threads to pull at makes sense to me but not blindly trusting everything it points out

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Record time speedrun from "I'm putting my foot down in favor of AI" to "at least 1/3 of patches are flat out wrong or harmful", eh?

[–] strangemath@lemmy.world 2 points 40 minutes ago

It’s easy to not have a problem with AI merge requests when you have a whole team of people filtering out the garbage before it gets to you.