• [$] On the use of LLM assistants for kernel development

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Aug 7 16:30:06 2025
    [$] On the use of LLM assistants for kernel development

    Date:
    Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:23:46 +0000

    Description:
    By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onslaught of AI-driven software-development tools.
    There has not been a flood of vibe-coded memory-management patches yet.
    But kernel development is, in the end, software development, and these
    tools threaten to change many aspects of how software development is done.
    In a world where companies are actively pushing their developers to use
    these tools, it is not surprising that the topic is increasingly prominent
    in kernel circles as well. There are currently a number of ongoing
    discussions about how tools based on large language models (LLMs) fit into
    the kernel-development community.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1032612/


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