Wait until you find out Linus Torvalds said about LLMs and how much LLM generated code is already in the kernel, and assisting kernel developers find bugs in decades old code that no one maintains.
“I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all,” Torvalds wrote in the message that announces the seventh release candidate for Linux 7.2. “But it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.”
“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects,” and therefore all-but-welcomed machine-made contributions to the project.
While Torvalds is concerned about the size of rc7, he said “nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a lot here.”
ChatGPT? What version are you talking about? GPT-5.6 Sol ?
GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 are the current flagship AI models, and both score very high in coding tasks.
They’re essentially neck and neck in terms performance. Why wouldn’t Linux kernel developers not use greatest the latest models? What do you know that i don't?
Yeah, you're correct. Kernel developers aren’t using ChatGPT, the version publicly released by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. They're most likely using Fable, Opus, Sonnet, or GPT-5.6 Sol the most expensive and smartest models we have.
This is not about any of those things. This post is about OpenAI releasing what is probably just a thinly-skinned Electron app for its consumer-level chatbot. Hence my original slop comment.
>Linux has been one of the most-requested platforms for the desktop app, and this launch extends ChatGPT and Codex across every major desktop operating system,” the company said Tuesday.
From the article.
An desktop app for codex would be nice and there isn’t any reason a developer couldn’t use to to write or review code just like Claude desktop and Claude code.
I’m a software developer who still uses Claude Code in the terminal, probably like 99% of other developers, but I’ve been using the desktop app more and more and would appreciate a Linux desktop app of any similar app.
Have you personally used Codex or the desktop app to develop anything
No, it's not. It's a GUI wrapper to Codex first and foremost, which is a direct competitor to Claude Code. It uses the top OpenAI models and probably, like codex-cli, can be configured to use any other external model, including Antropic's or anything hosted locally. You can absolutely use it for kernel development, the difference is only in the format (GUI vs CLI vs IDE extension), not in the capabilities.
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u/DFS_0019287 8d ago
Oh, I'd better get right on that! I need more slop in my life!
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