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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 21:34 EDT

Linus Torvalds on How AI is Impacting the Hunt for Linux Kernel Bugs

Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet — and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel development:

"In the last six months, we've seen a lot more commits," Torvalds noted, estimating that "the last two releases, it's been about 20% more commits than we had in the previous releases over many years.... The real change that happened in the last six months was that the AI tools actually got good enough for a lot of people... we're seeing a def

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