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Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux's AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked
- New vulns. (Score:2) by stooo ( 2202012 ) writes: the good question is : how many new vulnerabilities have been introduced ? No, just larger volume of submissions (Score:2) by drnb ( 2434720 ) writes: the good question is : how many new vulnerabilities have been introduced ?AI is creating patch submissions. Humans are still reviewing and approving patches. These humans have been dealing with patches from unskilled human submitters for decades. There is nothing new here, just a larger volume of what they are used to. Re: (Score:3) by test321 ( 8891681 ) writes: You can already setup a script that starts gathering this information. For each bugfix commit, gathers which commit introduced the vulnerability, and whether the original vulnerable commit is tagged as LLM-assisted.
New vulns. (Score:2)
the good question is : how many new vulnerabilities have been introduced ?
- No, just larger volume of submissions (Score:2) by drnb ( 2434720 ) writes: the good question is : how many new vulnerabilities have been introduced ?AI is creating patch submissions. Humans are still reviewing and approving patches. These humans have been dealing with patches from unskilled human submitters for decades. There is nothing new here, just a larger volume of what they are used to.
No, just larger volume of submissions (Score:2)
the good question is : how many new vulnerabilities have been introduced ?
AI is creating patch submissions. Humans are still reviewing and approving patches. These humans have been dealing with patches from unskilled human submitters for decades. There is nothing new here, just a larger volume of what they are used to.
- Re: (Score:3) by test321 ( 8891681 ) writes: You can already setup a script that starts gathering this information. For each bugfix commit, gathers which commit introduced the vulnerability, and whether the original vulnerable commit is tagged as LLM-assisted.
Re: (Score:3)
You can already setup a script that starts gathering this information. For each bugfix commit, gathers which commit introduced the vulnerability, and whether the original vulnerable commit is tagged as LLM-assisted.
- Linux sucks (Score:5, Funny) by Hentes ( 2461350 ) writes: on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:02PM (#66424277) I just want my inbox to be less horrendous. And yeah, AI is part of the reason; in general, it's gone from 'once a week' to 'daily' to 'half of what I see in review'.That's because Linux sucks. I use Outlook and I haven't received an email for days! Reply to This Share twitter facebook Flag as Inappropriate
Linux sucks (Score:5, Funny)
I just want my inbox to be less horrendous. And yeah, AI is part of the reason; in general, it's gone from 'once a week' to 'daily' to 'half of what I see in review'.
That's because Linux sucks. I use Outlook and I haven't received an email for days!
- Yes and no. (Score:2) by Gravis Zero ( 934156 ) writes: The number of actual vulnerability patches may have peaked but I'm certain that the number of "vulnerability" patches is going to continue to be high.
Yes and no. (Score:2)
The number of actual vulnerability patches may have peaked but I'm certain that the number of "vulnerability" patches is going to continue to be high.