[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-linus-torvalds-draws-a-line-on-ai-in-linux-code-review":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},4783,"linus-torvalds-draws-a-line-on-ai-in-linux-code-review","Linus Torvalds Draws a Line on AI in Linux Code Review","The kernel's creator backed an AI-assisted review tool and told skeptics to fork the project or leave, marking a clear shift from his 2024 skepticism.","Linus Torvalds has told Linux kernel contributors that AI-assisted code review is here to stay — and that resisters can take their objections elsewhere.\n\nThe flashpoint was Sashiko, an opt-in, multi-stage AI tool that analyzes kernel patches before they're merged. Its creators claim it catches 53.6% of bugs in patches that already passed human review, with a false positive rate estimated at under 20%. Developer Laurent Pinchart proposed filtering Sashiko's output through a human triage step, citing Software Freedom Conservancy guidelines on AI-generated code. Roman Gushchin, one of Sashiko's authors at Google, pushed back, arguing that triage would gut the tool's value. Torvalds agreed, and then some: he posted to the kernel mailing list that Linux \"is not one of those anti-AI projects\" and that anyone with a problem can fork the project or walk away.\n\nThe statement matters because Torvalds carries unusual authority in open-source — his word on tooling shapes what thousands of contributors treat as acceptable practice. His 2024 position was that AI was overhyped; his current one is that it's \"clearly a useful tool\" and no longer in question. That reversal, made publicly and bluntly, gives AI-assisted review a kind of institutional legitimacy in the Linux ecosystem that a quieter endorsement would not.\n\nOther major open-source projects — Gentoo Linux, Curl, and Ghostty among them — have moved in the opposite direction, restricting or banning LLM-generated contributions over concerns about low-quality submissions. Torvalds isn't addressing code generation, which is the source of most of that friction; Sashiko only comments on patches and takes no autonomous action. That distinction is doing a lot of work in his argument, and critics of a broader AI-in-open-source policy will notice it.","[\"linux\",\"open-source\",\"ai\",\"developer-tools\"]","2026-07-16T16:59:13.000Z","2026-07-16T18:05:23.492Z","2026-07-16T18:05:26.539Z","published",null,[],"dev-tools",[26,27,28,29],"linux","open-source","ai","developer-tools",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Fsoftware\u002Flinux\u002Flinus-torvalds-rebukes-anti-ai-stances-in-the-linux-kernel-code-review-process-says-linux-is-not-one-of-those-anti-ai-projects-creator-embraces-ai-as-just-a-tool-and-clearly-a-useful-one",0,{"sections":36},[37,41,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,79,84,89,94,99],{"name":38,"slug":28,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI",2597,"2026-07-16T19:59:08.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":43,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security","security",302,"2026-07-16T19:28:33.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Policy","policy",164,"2026-07-16T20:41:45.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",126,"2026-07-16T20:09:48.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",94,"2026-07-16T16:29:46.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Software","software",71,"2026-07-16T15:33:28.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":24,"count":78,"latest_published_at":18},"Dev Tools",60,{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Startups","startups",42,"2026-07-16T16:30:35.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]