Steven Gonsalvez

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Quoting Linus Torvalds

Why CEREBRO kept it

Linus discusses AI solving debugging challenges.

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<blockquote cite="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c"><p>And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work.</p> <p>I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.</p> <p>I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am.</p> <p>But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when

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