From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The role of AI and LLMs in the kernel process
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 21:48:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250805204858.GD222315@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72ee0f61379054e327d502bbe77aae3d76966d17.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 04:02:02PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > My objections are to do with the the kinds of errors one can
> > encounter with statistical inference like this.
> >
> > Humans do not confidently hallucinate in the absence of concrete
> > data, rather we infer and model.
>
> Might I refer you to pretty much any white house press briefing for
> counter examples ...
Thank you. Do we really want their kind anywhere near the
codebase, though? How would you treat someone ever caught pulling that
kind of shit? Personally I'd classify them as indistinguishable from
scammers and that would be it, reducing the problem to recognizing their
sock puppets if they ever get such.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-05 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-05 16:03 Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 16:43 ` James Bottomley
2025-08-05 17:11 ` Mark Brown
2025-08-05 17:23 ` James Bottomley
2025-08-05 17:43 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-05 17:58 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 18:16 ` Mark Brown
2025-08-05 18:01 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 18:46 ` Mark Brown
2025-08-05 19:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 17:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2025-08-05 17:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 18:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-12 13:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-05 18:34 ` James Bottomley
2025-08-05 18:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-12 13:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-05 18:39 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-05 19:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 20:02 ` James Bottomley
2025-08-05 20:48 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-08-06 19:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-07 12:25 ` Mark Brown
2025-08-07 13:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 21:26 ` Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-12 14:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-06 4:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2025-08-06 20:36 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-05 21:58 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-08-06 6:58 ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-08-06 19:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-06 19:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-05 18:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-08-05 18:19 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-06 5:49 ` Julia Lawall
2025-08-06 9:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-08-06 9:39 ` Julia Lawall
2025-08-06 19:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-12 14:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-08-12 15:02 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-12 15:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-08-12 15:25 ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-12 15:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-12-08 1:12 ` Sasha Levin
2025-12-08 1:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-12-08 1:59 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-12-08 3:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-12-08 3:42 ` James Bottomley
2025-12-08 8:41 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-12-08 9:16 ` James Bottomley
2025-12-08 10:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-12-08 4:15 ` Laurent Pinchart
2025-12-08 4:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-12-08 4:36 ` Laurent Pinchart
2025-12-08 7:00 ` Jiri Kosina
2025-12-08 7:38 ` James Bottomley
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