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Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse

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Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse
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Before a new version of Linux sees public release, it goes through a few rounds of release candidates. These are purely focused on people giving the kernel a spin, spotting bugs, and reporting them so they can be fixed. Linux's founder, Linus Torvald, noticed a strange upsurge in bug reports since version 7.0, and he quickly deduced that it was because people used AI tools to scour the code and report issues automatically.

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