Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The role of AI and LLMs in the kernel process

[Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2025, James Bottomley wrote:

> > * Equally, LLM's can introduce very subtle mistakes that humans find
> > difficult to pick up upon - humans implicitly assume that the classes
> > of errors they will encounter are the kinds other humans would make -
> > AI defeats that instinct.
> 
> Do you have any examples of this?  I've found the opposite to be true:
> AI is capable of really big stupid mistakes when it hasn't seen enough
> of the pattern, but I can't recall seeing it make something you'd
> classify as a subtle mistake (I assume it could copy subtle mistakes
> from wrong training data, so I'm not saying it can't, just that I
> haven't seen any).

Few months ago (so state of matters has probably changed a lot since 
then, I have no idea), I've seen a GPIO driver fully written by ChatGPT.

It was functionally correct and worked well. But it was missing error 
handle here-and-there. Is it subtle or big?

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs