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@CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca

2026-11-11 18:20 UTC

AI found a bunch of security issues that up until now had not been found. Just because no one had found them doesn’t mean the security exposure wasn’t there. Talk about shooting the messenger (AI in this case). Lorenzo should ask himself why the vulnerabilities hadn’t been found until now.

Replies (5)

  • Are you serious? He’s one human being. He’s not getting paid to do this. All the people who volunteer their time to maintain Linux have lives and jobs too. He didn’t “shoot the messenger” He said “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 :)” It’s right there in the post. It doesn’t matter if the vulnerabilities are valid or not. The man can’t keep up with doing everything he’d been doing because its just too much work for one person to handle.

    Open ##5520198

  • @ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-11 19:58

    your last sentence is not like the others

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  • @Senal@programming.dev 2026-11-11 19:59

    This is actually a great opportunity for you to bolster your argument on multiple fronts. Grab your favourite LLM , point it at that article and ask it to summarise the meaning. See how that stacks up against the take you just posted. For bonus points, also provide the prompt, name of model/harness used and the response you were given, for independent verification. That way, you get to promote your favourite workflow and provide corroborating evidence of interpretation.

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  • @milbyte11@lemmy.ml 2026-11-11 20:38

    yes i can also point an LLM on the kernel, instruct it to find vulnerabilities and it will invent one because it’s a sycophantic removed. Doesn’t change the fact that 80% of those reports are absolutely worthless and that are also written by LLM are miserable to read and verify.

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  • @MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2026-11-12 00:42

    i don’t know how you nterpreted that article, but to me it was just a dude overwhelmed by volume, and sending some to others so he can continue to be effective. i don’t think he was claiming anything about AI or the patches themselves.

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