Linux memory management expert Lorenzo Stoakes at Arm who has been contributing to the kernel since 2014 is stepping away from some reviewership roles within the Linux kernel due to all of the noise from the flood of kernel patches resulting fro AI/LLMs.
Lorenzo announced today he is stepping away as a reviewer for the memory management (MM), core, misc, and Rust areas due to all the noise caused by AI. Lorenzo will continue serving as maintainer for areas of the kernel he oversees but is looking to lighten his load due to the increased patch burden in 2026.
Lorenzo commented in the patch series removing himself as reviewer for those areas of the kernel:
"Given the current throughput in the kernel resulting from AI-generated series, I unfortunately lack the bandwidth to generally be able to offer review except in those areas I maintain.
I have separated the patches into areas maintained by David, Andrew, and Alice + Danilo, so each can take the patches relevant to the subsystems, for convenience.
Apologies for doing this, but given the current trends I'd like to do something to make my inbox a little more manageable :)"
Lorenzo has been a longtime contributor to the Linux memory management code and also author of the book The Linux Memory Manager.
Because they are…and Linus set it in motion by acting like LLM code slop is the way forward for linux.
Yeah Linus thinks because he can easily validate the code generated by ai and know what to use and what to discard/recreate, that everybody else can also do the same. It doesn’t work that way. This is gonna end up killing linux or somebody is gonna fork it to keep it human only
Yea which is scary as hell, Linux has always been the “security choice” for an OS…now… everyone in the security field is going to start getting a bit more cautious about it.
It’s for this reason that i’m starting to eye openbsd. Apart from wifi for my laptop not working it seems surprisingly compatible in terms of hardware, but the bigger issue would be that i would be more limited when it comes to gaming. As a Guix/Nix enjoyer i would also kinda miss declaring my OS through code. I’m probably sticking with linux for the time being but i’m gonna try getting more familiar with openbsd as well
I think FreeBSD has nix support. I think it would be immature though.
FreeBSD moment
I mean, the Linux kernel exists because of him? I would argue to say he knows the most about Linux than anyone arguing against him.
People are going to generate and commit code without acknowledging the LLM usage, then 5-10 years will pass and a huge whistleblower will go ““BabaMan29484” has been committing LLM code for years and nobody except I knew about it!! [Insert evidence] [Insert community outrage] [insert fork of a fork created by “real humans”]”
I won’t argue and say that LLM generated code isn’t plagiarism, I mean it has to learn somewhere, but if it’s being audited by industry professionals I can’t see the negative to using it.
I think you partially missed their point. Linus thinks that because HE can then everyone else can too.
Exactly
The dictatorship of Technocratism. This same (circular) argument is pushed by neoliberal fuckers on austerity, when that’s just a game they were paid to play.
Software existed before Linus Torvalds and will thrive after him.
Lil kids, noobs, need to be taught to stop idolize guys like Greg and Linus, they went corporate and became evil.
They’re not evil, and “went corporate” is a vague and meaningless jab.
Dont idolize people is generally good advice though. I think these guys’ problem is that they’re old and jaded, and should’ve stepped down long ago. If there’s no one fit to take their place, that’s a reflection of their failure as leaders.
They are evil, they have to be to play along. The big money dictates what happens in the Linux Foundation
Are you donating to Linux? The only reason Linux is where it is at now is big money. Ifnitbwas just people coding in their spare time it would be no where near where it is today. People have to make money. Do youbwork for free?
You need to think outside the capitalistic logic.
You need to think with any logic at all