From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
christianvanbrauner@gmail.com
Subject: Re: LLM based rewrites
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 18:38:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa8TnXA8qsG92hyX@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260309143406.3d45e36e@gandalf.local.home>
* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@goodmis.org) wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:19:42 -0700
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't think LLMs will be able to come up with the necessary proof of
> > separation without essentially recreating the clean room process, which
> > grows cost prohibitive as the complexity of the work increases.
>
> I con see one AI bot reading the original code, and then making the prompts
> to pass to a second AI bot to produce the code.
That's what Chardet did:
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078
however, there's a fun question of whether the second AI had already seen
the code; a lot of LLMs seem to have been trained on a lot of open
source code already.
Dave
> -- Steve
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-09 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-07 20:49 LLM based rewrites Christian Brauner
2026-03-09 13:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-09 15:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-03-09 16:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-09 16:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-03-09 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-03-09 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-03-09 18:19 ` James Bottomley
2026-03-09 18:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-09 18:38 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2026-03-09 18:54 ` James Bottomley
2026-03-10 4:52 ` Theodore Tso
[not found] ` <CAMTJT3_cVaA7aJmDa6j288-qwP3jzvM_R2pdk+XmE+1U=Sovbg@mail.gmail.com>
2026-03-10 12:47 ` Theodore Tso
2026-03-10 14:10 ` Dr. Greg
2026-03-09 16:05 ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-09 16:16 ` James Bottomley
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