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In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches

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unified101 · 1789979593 · focus · HN ↗
Seems low. 80% people are manually typing in things? In my circle it's close to 0% code written manually.
Do linux devs live in a completely different microcosm?
1. pjc50 · 1789980287 · focus · HN ↗
  Embedded code and systems code tends to have a lot of extra constraints the model doesn't know about and aren't necessarily written down where it can see. This produces a higher rate of "superficially plausible but doesn't actually work" code.
  (There are probably wider benchmarks, but this was a definite finding in our company wide evaluation of effectiveness. LLMs aren't great at RTL either)

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