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

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 07:49:24AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2025, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > Another genuinely good usage for AI is for especially non-English
> > speakers to tidy up their patch comments and other documentation.
> 
> There are also some parts of the kernel that are supposed to have
> comments, such as memory barriers.  AI could help ensure that the comments
> are actually meaningful, and perhaps suggest to the developer how they
> could be improved (sort of a 0-day for comment quality).
> 

I feel like I have seen patches where people have generated AI
documentation for locking.  The problem is that if you ask AI to write
something it always has a very confident answer but normally it's vague
and slightly wrong.  It takes no time to generate these patches but it
takes a while to review them.

regards,
dan carpenter