'The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable': Linus Torvalds laments how people are wasting the Linux team's time with LLMs

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In the world of software, it's common knowledge that Linus Torvalds isn't one to mince his words, and in a post about the latest kernel release candidate on the Linux mailing list archive, he was critical about people using AI tools to find bugs or other issues. Not because they used AI in the first place, but because countless people are essentially submitting messages that basically just say, 'here's a bug.'

The missive in question (via The Register) starts with a note about how new drivers make up roughly half of the kernel update, especially GPU ones, with the rest of the changes covering "networking, core kernel, filesystems, and arch updates."