Linus Torvalds backs AI coding tools in Linux: 'fork it or walk away'

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he is willing to 'absolutely put my foot down' in support of AI tools for the kernel, telling critics that 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' and that objectors can fork it or walk away. His stance stakes out a clear position amid deep splits across open source over LLM-generated code. The comments came in a mailing-list thread over Sashiko, an 'agentic Linux kernel code review system' whose creators claim it independently finds 53.6% of bugs later fixed by humans, though it also generates false positives within a 20% range.

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