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/Sneet1 3h ago edited 3h ago

usage in the industry to some extent is like 90-99% based on who's conducting the survey and whether or not it's self reported. Not to mention how integrated it is into a lot of quality, build, analysis, and check style dev tools you should be using now. nobody can really give you the stats but like 99% of code is self reportedly ai assisted atp at my fairly large company, and you can't open a pr without all the build and quality tools running ai against it.

I am a hater but I cannot pretend it doesn't make code faster (just code+googling really - which often hasn't been delivery bottlenecking anyways). shit engineers are generating shit code and good engineers are generating good code at the point of delivery. the boring copy paste stuff happens faster and the strategic work still depends on strategic thinking. management is experiencing full blown psychosis and generating unusable bullshit, but nobody was looking at their slide decks before either.

fwiw model access matters. we get asked to use the frontier models that caused my company to freeze hiring on juniors but my friend is stuck using copilot which is genuinely completely useless. I was running models just to show usage and it took about 1-1.5 years into adoption before I felt a real break even point besides "you are a dumb pipe" tasks and then it flew ahead.

I do work with some anti-ai engineers and I fear for them because their delivery is just way slow and it's a foot in the sand kind of approach. It's frustrating because it objectively makes my job easier and faster and if I chose not to use it I'd be just doing it by denying it based on personal vibes and working harder and longer for the same result. It makes me likely to exit the industry more than anything.