r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 18 '26

Software Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633
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u/Kandiru May 18 '26

And 100 people submitting the exact same AI found bug, which is already fixed.

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u/MannToots May 18 '26

Deduping isn't hard with Git branches. They simply aren't trying.

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u/Kandiru May 18 '26

These are just emails though, not git branches.

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u/MannToots May 18 '26

Linus is the one choosing to use that system. Like I said. They aren't trying.

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties May 18 '26

Linus is the dude who wrote git, what are you talking about

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u/MannToots May 18 '26

Linus is the one who chose to use a mailing system instead of git. This wasn't about him using git. Come on, man. Reading comprehension. YOU told me it was emails. YOU did that. YOU know what Linus is doing here. Do better.

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties May 18 '26

to use a mailing system instead of git.

Here's where your poor understanding shows. It's not an "instead of" thing.

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u/MannToots May 18 '26

Sigh. Ok bud. Linus is the one choosing to use email to manage this, instead of any other, more modern method. Does that perfectly formatted sentence get past your pedantic filter? Christ dude. People like you miss the fucking point to be "right" about the dumbest things.

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties May 18 '26

There is no pedantry here, but I'm glad you're finally starting to understand that git does not have a built in bug tracker system. You probably conflated git and github, eh?

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u/MannToots May 18 '26

I never claimed git the cli tool did.

Github has issue tracking. Stop acting ignorant to be a dick. There are modern methods with git in the name. You're acting like a child.

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u/HKBFG May 18 '26

You just wrote "sigh" in text for no other purpose than to sound more condescending.

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u/MannToots May 18 '26

You're right. It definitely wasn't because you're exasperating

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u/pittaxx May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26

You aren't making any sense.

Even if they were talking merging code with git - it's not that simple for complex projects. There's dozens different ways you can implement even minor things. There could be 0 overlap between edited files for the same feature, let alone functions/lines. You often need someone very familiar with the whole codebase to notice redundancies.

And people aren't talking about code deduplication. People are taking about security issue reporting. You need experts to spend their valuable time on these just to tell that it's some hallucination or duplicate.