Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The role of AI and LLMs in the kernel process

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 08:24:11AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:02:50AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 10:37:10AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> > One thing I look forward to with AI is that it will likely help me debug my
>> > own code. I suspect it would be really good at reading my code and say
>> > "Hey Stupid! You forgot to free this value over here". And things like that.
>> > In other words, I trust AI to debug my code more than I can debug its code.
>>
>> I'm surprised that this isn't too common of a practice at this point.
>> Sure, AI will make mistakes, but I think that:
>>
>> 1. It's much better at reviewing rather than writing.
>> 2. Mistakes aren't critical (you'd review it yourself anyway).
>> 3. No legal issues.
>
>Ahem.  Please do us all a favor, yourself included, and go count the
>number of lawsuits currently in flight on this topic.

For using AI for review, where it doesn't generate any code? I'd love a
reference please :)

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Thanks,
Sasha