{"id":1537623,"date":"2026-03-27T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9fRMfVYW5KEAHAC3dFhDZM"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:35:31","slug":"linux-kernel-maintainer-says-ai-has-suddenly-become-useful-for-devs-we-cant-ignore-this-stuff-its-coming-up-and-its-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/linux-kernel-maintainer-says-ai-has-suddenly-become-useful-for-devs-we-cant-ignore-this-stuff-its-coming-up-and-its-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux kernel maintainer says AI has suddenly become useful for devs: &#8216;We can&#8217;t ignore this stuff. It&#8217;s coming up, and it&#8217;s getting better&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>AI must have been doing push-ups in the dead of night lately, because a lead Linux kernel maintainer says it&#8217;s pretty recently started to come in very useful. Not necessarily for coding\u2014although I&#8217;m sure that landscape is constantly evolving, too\u2014but rather for generating security reports.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/26\/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Register<\/a>, Linux Kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman explained that while previously &#8220;we were getting what we called &#8216;AI slop&#8217;&#8230; something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they&#8217;re good, and they&#8217;re real&#8230; All open source security teams are hitting this right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The question is why these actually useful AI-generated or AI-aided reports have started streaming in so suddenly, and unfortunately, the answer is unclear:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know. Nobody seems to know why. Either a lot more tools got a lot better, or people started going, &#8216;Hey, let&#8217;s start looking at this.&#8217; It seems like lots of different groups, different companies&#8230; There must have been some inflection point somewhere with the tools. Did the local tools get better? Did people figure out something? I honestly don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-OKQz7e\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/OKQz7e.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anecdotally, though, Kroah-Hartman can attest to AI&#8217;s usefulness for developer-related tasks such as code reviews:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did a really stupid prompt. I said, &#8216;Give me this,&#8217; and it spit out 60: &#8216;Here&#8217;s 60 problems I found, and here&#8217;s the fixes for them.&#8217; About one-third were wrong, but they still pointed out a relatively real problem, and two-thirds of the patches were right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tools are good. We can&#8217;t ignore this stuff. It&#8217;s coming up, and it&#8217;s getting better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m as much of an AI-sceptic as the next person when it comes to certain use cases or the industry at large, but there&#8217;s no denying it can be incredibly useful for particular tasks. Apparently, Linux kernel maintainers already have an AI code review system called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sashiko-dev\/sashiko\" target=\"_blank\">Sashiko<\/a> baked into their workflow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"X4Mm2E7cgDNmzat4KYaNvF\" name=\"origami-linux-01\" alt=\"Origami Linux desktop screenshots\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/linux-kernel-maintainer-says-ai-has-suddenly-become-useful-for-devs-we-cant-ignore-this-stuff-its-coming-up-and-its-getting-better.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It can all seem a very simple and easy proposition, with little downside, from the perspective of an end-user such as a dev using Sashiko or someone chatting to an LLM. But we should remember that that&#8217;s glossing over the tons of energy, resources, and market effects that have gone into laying the preconditions for those interactions: namely, server production, energy consumption, and the dreaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/memory\/ram-and-storage-is-ridiculously-expensive-right-now-because-of-drumroll-ai-of-course-and-theres-little-reason-to-think-prices-will-drop-any-time-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">RAMpocalypse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But if all those resources can be used for something, I&#8217;ll take security reports and code reviews over, say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/nvidia-dlss-5-reveal-pc-gamer-reacts-not-wholly-positively\/\" target=\"_blank\">AI filter-esque DLSS5<\/a>. Though I suspect I&#8217;m preaching to the choir, there.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/linux\/linux-kernel-maintainer-says-ai-has-suddenly-become-useful-for-devs-we-cant-ignore-this-stuff-its-coming-up-and-its-getting-better\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI must have been doing push-ups in the dead of night lately, because a lead Linux kernel maintainer says it&#8217;s pretty recently started to come in very useful. Not necessarily for coding\u2014although I&#8217;m sure that landscape is constantly evolving, too\u2014but rather for generating security reports. Speaking to The Register, Linux Kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman explained that while previously &#8220;we were getting what we called &#8216;AI slop&#8217;&#8230; something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports.&#8221; &#8220;All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they&#8217;re good, and they&#8217;re real&#8230; All open source security teams are hitting this right now.&#8221; The question is why these actually useful AI-generated or AI-aided reports have started streaming in so suddenly,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/linux-kernel-maintainer-says-ai-has-suddenly-become-useful-for-devs-we-cant-ignore-this-stuff-its-coming-up-and-its-getting-better\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1537624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[836,6599,1622],"class_list":["post-1537623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-linux","tag-operating-systems","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Linux kernel maintainer says AI has suddenly become useful for devs: &#039;We can&#039;t ignore this stuff. 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