r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 20h ago

Development Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
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u/zackel_flac 12h ago

Because your name is on it fully, your responsibility and you can't come back and say: AI did that shit

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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 12h ago

Yes you can, because AI did that shit.

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u/zackel_flac 11h ago

This is the whole point: don't let AI do all the work because it can't be trusted. AI did X should never be am excuse for shipping it.

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u/AffectionatePlastic0 10h ago

The whole point is that the one who sent the PR is responsible for it's content. Not Claude/Gemini/Qwen/GLM.

How they have created this patch is out of scope.

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u/zackel_flac 8h ago

Then the "Assisted-By" tag can be removed, it serves no purpose, or else let's be pedentic, let's add all the tooling used: valgrind, gcc, libasan and so on.