Linus Torvalds Says Anti-AI Rules Are "Utterly Stupid" #linux #ai #programming

Linus Torvalds used an LLM to make the Linux kernel's assoc_array code readable, and a test harness then found three bugs going back to 2013. Two days later he told a kernel maintainer that rules against AI tools are "UTTERLY STUPID": what he cares about is whether you understand your code, not which tools you used.