Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to build a Linux page cache fix that hit 23x read throughput, but kernel reviewers found a race before anything merged.

They got to him

  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Tell me then, was the problem solved, the work done by the LLM?

    partially

    Was it considered good enough for a mainbranch?

    Probably, if it took multiple experts to catch the bug.

    Or was it faulty/risky and require highly trained experts to catch? Then flagged, and only put into an experimental branch?

    As happens with human code all the time

    How many ex-Oracle memory experts do you think are available for this work, in which even Linus didn’t catch the race condition?

    No idea, at least one.

    A competent person like Linus can manage and direct competent code generation, whether that code is generated by an AI or an intern.