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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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The same way Windows is "fixing bugs" with AI? Large volumes of dubiously tested code is never a good idea
Linus's post only says the bug were found using an AI tool, not fixed using AI.
No, in this case the AI is finding the bugs and humans are at least reviewing the code and, anecdotally at least, in a lot of cases still writing it in the first place.
Linus is not a fool
I think the point is the bugs are being FOUND with AI. Not fixed with AI.
It's basically the same concept as open source in general. IE the average layman hears open source and they think "oh so every moron, malicious person etc... can add his own back doors into the code", of course not, the official version is gated and reviewed. What's happening is AI is basically serving as millions of idiots looking through the code for security flaws, and it's finding them. Which then means the humans fixing it need to go into overdrive to fix them before they become zero days.
They're absolutely being "fixed" with AI too.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
It was a whole thing back and forth that Linus finally ruled on. It's supposed to be under the purview of a specific human ultimately but as we've seen with countless other projects people get lazy fast with LLMs and testing and review does slip. I trust Linux overall to be better than many other projects yes, but to state AI is not doing development too when it's very much allowed and discussed is blind to what's been happening in the project.