From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:36:32 -0500, DFS wrote:   
      
   > While Linux bitches bitch and whine about optional AI in Windows, Linux   
   > kernel developers already rely 100% on AI for a variety of tasks:   
   >   
   >   
   > "As Torvalds said in his OSS Japan keynote, AI has finally reached the   
   > point where it is genuinely helpful for Linux maintainers, rather than   
   > just hype around code generation. He emphasized that his interest lies   
   > in AI systems that pre-screen patches and merges, surfacing issues   
   > before they reach his inbox, rather than in tools that attempt to write   
   > complex kernel code outright. AI is not ready for that yet."   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   > Levin also said a patch merged for Linux 6.15, credited to him but   
   > entirely generated by AI, with changelog and tests included. The patch,   
   > a small but non-trivial hash-table change, demonstrated, in his view,   
   > what AI does well: narrowly scoped, mechanical transformations in which   
   > the model can reason about bit-fields."   
   >   
   >   
   > https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-is-part-of-linux-plumbing-developers/   
   >   
   >   
   > Say it ain't so!   
   >   
   > Let the excuse-making commence.   
      
   You're not wrong. Nevertheless, AI in Windows is offered in places where   
   it does not benefit the user in the least, in places where privacy should   
   be the main priority and through hardware nobody was looking to have (the   
   NPU). Additionally, Microsoft has already shown that it has no interest   
   whatsoever in allowing us to preserve our privacy in their disrespect of   
   our settings for Windows itself (with optional data being sent to them   
   regardless of what we configured) and in reinstalling software the user   
   had consciously uninstalled because it was a privacy threat. Whether AI is   
   useful or not was not the argument, it should have been whether users   
   should be forced to swallow it.   
      
      
      
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   CrudeSausage   
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