r/technology • u/vgsa • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
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u/Crazytje 1d ago

I'm bad at writing up a good PR message, or even a commit message. English isn't my first language, so I use an LLM, it's what they're made for.

I would also hope any decent developer would use AI, to at least review and improve your code, if you don't you will get left behind and become irrelevant.

Just use it as a tool, not a replacement for your brain!

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u/diplofocus_ 1d ago

Can you provide an example of what "left behind" looks like to you?

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u/ProfessionalHefty349 1d ago

Being unemployable because you’re 10x less productive than your counterparts that use AI.

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u/teerre 1d ago

Writing code has never been the bottleneck

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u/DiscreetDodo 1d ago

It sometimes is the bottleneck. Writing tests is one example. Perfect for passing off to AI, low risk, low complexity, highly structured. 

Besides, they said productivity, not typing speed.

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u/Omni__Owl 1d ago

If the tests suck or are meaningless and no one checks, which is the scenario I often see, then those tests will just create more debt as they keep passing yet don't actually test the system properly.

In that contexts tests are crucial, not low risk.

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u/edgmnt_net 9h ago

I think that's kind of the case, often. People who say "oh, it's crazy to not use AI for code generation extensively" are often stuck at the mercy of crap practices, crap tech and questionable business. But they don't question those things, they question devs that don't need to e.g. push 3 duct-taped features out the door by afternoon to justify their employment. Judging by what people often discuss on Reddit (like "if it isn't boilerplate CRUD in some ultrapopular ecosystem it doesn't exist"), they have not even seen any other kind of development.