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

[Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 08:58:20AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> But anyway. LLMs are great in producing something where 90% accuracy
> is good enough. But that's not how coding works; so one always will
> have to review any LLM generated code.
> And that at a time where we already have issues finding enough reviewers
> for code written by humans.

Yes, precisely. Maintainer resource is strained as it is (he writes at
8.35pm :), we simply do not have the bandwidth to handle an uncontrolled
influx where there's an async relationship between ability-to-generate and
ability-to-review.

So empowering maintainers to _decide_ what's acceptable per-subsystem is
key I think.

Cheers, Lorenzo