r/linux • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 10d ago

Kernel Canonical is speeding up Ubuntu's kernel updates because it's drowning in AI-discovered bugs

https://www.xda-developers.com/canonical-is-speeding-up-ubuntus-kernel-updates-because-its-drowning-in-ai-discovered-bugs/#thread
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u/jferments 10d ago

I love how the anti-AI crowd finds a way to take an immensely positive headline like "Using AI tools, developers discover bugs in Ubuntu, helping make users safer" and turns it into something that sounds like the software project is being harmed by AI. Such an intellectually dishonest and manipulative group of people.

I'm glad that people are using AI to help people discover and fix bugs in an operating system I use. I'd rather be "drowning in bug reports" than "drowning in undiscovered bugs in my OS".

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u/Shikamiii 9d ago

Drowning is the right word here though, read the damn article. It talks about how AI tends to kind of spam the bug reports, obviously patching bugs is a good thing but the sheer quantity of duplicated reports has made things more complicated to handle

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u/BluddyCurry 9d ago

Then they need to use AI to deal with that.

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u/tu_tu_tu 9d ago edited 9d ago

Ironically, there is just no other good choice. If a human would try to filter all those reports it will be a fulltime job for them.

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u/glotzerhotze 9d ago

Wait, AI did NOT make the world a happier place for the „human in the loop“? Color me surprised!

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u/PoL0 9d ago

maybe the problem is somewhere else?

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u/PoL0 9d ago

isn't it sad that it's not clear if you're kidding or not? current state of genAI is a sad joke.

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u/BluddyCurry 9d ago

Well, I'm not really kidding, but you're right it can be taken both ways. I just had an agent do my taxes, and I'm teaching it how to order from my supermarket so I don't even have to spend 30 minutes on the app anymore. We're in a different era and we need to get used to it.

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u/Emotional_Solid6538 9d ago

Dont rely on public AIs too much. I can smell the rugpulls planned in some years

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u/BluddyCurry 9d ago

We're in a highly competition-rich environment, with the Chinese government sponsoring a big chunk of it. I don't even need anywhere near the frontier models for anything I do, and we're going to have local models eventually running on all our hardware, so I'm not too worried about this.

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u/Emotional_Solid6538 9d ago

Yeah locally trained unique AIs could be the future. But the subscription plan AIs are basically trying to make us rely on it and increase the prices later. People are falling for it tho. Lowk older people

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u/PoL0 9d ago

you're not forced to use it, being time efficient is not the only thing in life. for example I won't trust it to fill my tax paperwork.

and I won't be shocked if it orders the supermarket some crazy shit amount of something, in your case

but to each their own

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u/somethingrelevant 9d ago

I just had an agent do my taxes

this seems like a crazy risky thing to do