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Peter Anvin" , Lorenzo Stoakes , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The role of AI and LLMs in the kernel process Message-ID: References: <37BCAD5A-07C4-4119-89C2-D3A45C24DE18@zytor.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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