It seems that Linus Torvalds has a complicated relationship with AI.

Huge because AI tools are reviewing kernel code at a pace human contributors cannot match, surfacing fixes faster than any previous development cycle.

In his words: "the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools."

Earlier this year, he complained that AI-powered bug reports had made the Linux security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" due to the volume of duplicates and low-quality reports.

He has publicly criticized AI-generated patches for being poorly documented and hard to review.

And yet he has also said plainly: "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects."

It is an acknowledgment that the tools are changing the pace and face of work whether you like it or not.

LE: My fault 😅, I was not specific enough in title. He had a problem with superficial/perfunctory pull requests done with AI. If the request is serious he has no problem if the code is good.