Linus Torvalds credits AI assistant for helping debug Linux kernel issue
Linus Torvalds publicly credited an AI assistant for significantly aiding a difficult Linux kernel debug session, despite the AI repeatedly claiming the problem was unsolvable. He noted that while the AI was ready to give up several times, it faithfully added debug code and analyzed results when pushed, and he let the AI write the commit message.
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Simon Willison
And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am. But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above. — Linus Torvalds , drm/xe: Don't hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM Tags: linus-torvalds , linux , generative-ai , ai-assisted-programming , ai , llms