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

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:02:50AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 10:37:10AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > One thing I look forward to with AI is that it will likely help me debug my
> > own code. I suspect it would be really good at reading my code and say
> > "Hey Stupid! You forgot to free this value over here". And things like that.
> > In other words, I trust AI to debug my code more than I can debug its code.
> 
> I'm surprised that this isn't too common of a practice at this point.
> Sure, AI will make mistakes, but I think that:
> 
> 1. It's much better at reviewing rather than writing.
> 2. Mistakes aren't critical (you'd review it yourself anyway).
> 3. No legal issues.

Ahem.  Please do us all a favor, yourself included, and go count the
number of lawsuits currently in flight on this topic.

						Thanx, Paul