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Lemmy users are sure to have a reasonable reaction to this take.
Well most of them won't read beyond the headline; they'll likely just make massive assumptions based on title and their own predispositions. Sounds to me like Linus is trying to leave room for some of the practical nature of LLMs and implement them as useful tools, but it seems like he may be a little ignorant of the various agendas of LLM developers themselves. Just my stupid take.
So they are going to autocomplete their takes based on the headline, I hope the irony isn't lost on them.
He doesn't really specify use cases beyond Sashiko (I believe that's the project they're discussing), which, if I understand correctly, uses an LLM to review kernel patches using a pre-set list of prompts. The output of those prompts presumably gets added to the PR for anyone who cares to read it.
These outputs sometimes have mistakes in them, so the maintainers must read them with a critical eye, but I think Linus is arguing here that it's sufficiently... "good enough" that including them is helpful to the maintainers, that it catches enough real stuff without wasting too much time on fake stuff. There are always tradeoffs when adding a tool to the stack, and sufficiently rare misfires are probably worth the times it catches real problems that humans miss.