r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 19h 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/foolish_shrimp 19h ago

If AI is so good, why do they always want to hide that they’re using it.

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u/frankster 19h ago

To me, it's just an advert for different companies. Realistically, 90% of software will have some assistance from an LLM, just as it does from a compiler, a static analyser, etc etc. Interesting they don't see gcc worthy of noting as an assisting tool, but that coccinnelle is worth mentioning!

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u/somethingrelevant 10h ago

A compiler doesn't write any of the code you then feed into the compiler