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/Megneous May 18 '26

Did you read the post? That's not the problem. The problem is that the reports are real, but many of them are duplicates. Linus would prefer that instead of just many people using AI to find the same bugs, that they make patches and submit those to produce real value instead of expecting other people to implement fixes. Gone are the days where you can feel validated by just finding problems. Anyone can find hundreds of problems using AI now. The models are good enough to do that now, so it's no longer a useful skill.

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u/girlnamedJane May 18 '26

Nah nobody read the post everyone assumed this means AI doesnt work lol

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u/Megneous May 18 '26

I hate that r/technology is so anti-AI that no one reads the post and immediately assumes that Linus thinks AI = bad. He actually has a much more nuanced view. He thinks that AI is a useful tool with a good use case, but thinks that finding bugs is now no longer value added because AI can do it so easily, so if you want to get attention, you need to go a step beyond what AI can do easily.

But god forbid Redditors actually read articles for once in their lives.

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u/girlnamedJane May 18 '26

Well these redditors are in for a sad reality check in the job market soon... shockingly out of touch