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Luke James

Linux kernel's ‘second-in-command’ uses local AI bot to hunt bugs, powered by 'clanker' system with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ — Framework Desktop has resulted in close to two dozen patches

Greg Kroah-Hartman's "Clanker T1000" bug hunting hardware. .

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel's stable branch maintainer, who is widely regarded as second only to Linus Torvalds in the project's hierarchy, posted a photo to Mastodon on Friday showing the hardware behind his AI-assisted bug-finding tool, dubbed a "clanker."

The setup, which Kroah-Hartman has dubbed "gkh_clanker_t1000," is a Framework Desktop powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" processor, running a local large language model to hunt down kernel bugs without relying on any cloud infrastructure, as first reported by Phoronix.

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