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Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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Well, it's clear you don't understand what actually happened here.
Linus Torvalds creator and contributor to Linux is warming up to AI. Seems pretty clear cut to me.
Then how did he use it? Did he just tell his AI to spit out some code and use it? Or, did he tell it to find errors for him to fix? You can hate AI all you want, but at least get your information straight.
AI tech bro spotted.
It doesn't fucking matter actually. AI is just as bad at finding the root cause of an issue as it is generating code.