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Neowin ☛ Linus Torvalds loses patience with AI-generated code fixes bloating the Linux kernel
Torvalds is getting hardnosed about unnecessary code churn in the latest release candidate. Find out why he says Hey Hi (AI) tools are creating a major headache for kernel maintainers.
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The Register UK ☛ Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs
“Trivial fixes may be trivial, and have a pretty low chance of causing problems, but ‘low chance’ is still not ‘zero chance.’”
Torvalds ended his post with instructions.
“Start looking closer at your pull requests, and ask yourself: ‘Is this really a regression or serious enough that it shouldn't just go into the development pile?’”
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Soylent News ☛ Torvalds Says AI Bug Hunters Have Made Linux Security Mailing List ‘Almost Entirely Unmanageable' - SoylentNews
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OSTechNix ☛ Linux Kernel 7.1 RC5 Released: AI Code Reviews Bloat Patch Size
Linus Torvalds released the fifth release candidate (RC5) for Linux Kernel 7.1 on 24 May 2026. While a new release usually brings excitement, this week comes with a strict warning from the kernel's creator. Although the update contains many fixes, Torvalds is "not entirely happy" with how the development cycle is moving.
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The Register UK ☛ AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend [Ed: SJVN retitles old FUD]
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IT News AU ☛ Another serious Linux local privesc bug surfaces
Cyber security vendor Qualys has found a logic bug in the Linux kernel which, if exploited, can be abused to escalate standard user privileges to those of the root superuser with full administrative system rights.
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Hot Hardware ☛ Torvalds Tightens Linux Kernel Rules To Reject Deluge Of Low-Value AI Fixes
For about the past week, Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has been voicing complaints about "the continued flood of AI reports" making the list of security fixes unmanageable due to duplicate entries, and says it is now starting to choke the flow of new fixes in general due to the size of the Linux 7.1 Release Candidate 5 (rc5) becoming much larger than it should be. It's not that Torvalds has become strictly anti-AI, but rather that it's only good when it's actually helps.
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XDA ☛ Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse
Before a new version of Linux sees public release, it goes through a few rounds of release candidates. These are purely focused on people giving the kernel a spin, spotting bugs, and reporting them so they can be fixed. Linux's founder, Linus Torvalds, noticed a strange surge in bug reports since version 7.0, and he quickly deduced that it was due to people using AI tools to scour the code and report issues automatically.
Last week, Linus took to the release candidate announcements to lament how AI-generated bug reports were flooding the secure channels, when they'd be better off going through the public ones. Now, it seems that Linus is getting peeved with people throwing any fixes they find at the maintainers, regardless of how trivial they are.
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TechSpot ☛ Linus Torvalds is fed up with AI-generated bug reports bloating the Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds has expressed frustration over Linux developers submitting ill-timed bug reports just before an RC5 release, with some using AI to detect trivial issues. He added that several of the fixes are also being written by AI, and that the AI-generated code often adds bloat to the Linux kernel rather than addressing the actual problem.