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What will happen if the Linux kernel starts having AI generated code in it?

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[–] Skyline969@piefed.ca 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 6jarjar6 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How do you know it doesn't already?

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We cannot know, in the same way we cannot know that it doesn't contain code that is hand-written on graph paper and scanned in via OCR.

The standards for code submissions for the kernel are extremely high, and their review process very strict and complete. There are no barriers stopping LLM generated code from entering the code base, but the barrier of entry for the code quality itself is so high that you have to submit code at the quality of a seasoned and competent engineer.

Ultimately, does it matter that the code was LLM written if the quality is sufficiently high?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. AI generated code is only a bad thing if it's blindly pushed to production without any sort of review. A lot of the use of AI in coding is to do the simple mundane work that an entry level dev could do.

[–] otter@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh, I need a bunch of slightly different unit tests to cover a bunch of different cases. {AI} write the unit tests for me to review.

This is my main use case that ends to saving a lot of time not writing boilerplate code.