Post by @SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml

2026-11-10 13:09 UTC

Longtime Linux Developer Steps Down From Some Roles Due To Patch Flood Caused By AI Linux memory management expert Lorenzo Stoakes at Arm who has been contributing to the kernel since 2014 is stepping away from some reviewership roles within the Linux kernel due to all of the noise from the flood of kernel patches resulting fro AI/LLMs. Lorenzo announced today he is stepping away as a reviewer for the memory management (MM), core, misc, and Rust areas due to all the noise caused by AI. Lorenzo will continue serving as maintainer for areas of the kernel he oversees but is looking to lighten his load due to the increased patch burden in 2026. Lorenzo commented in the patch series removing himself as reviewer for those areas of the kernel: "Given the current throughput in the kernel resulting from AI-generated series, I unfortunately lack the bandwidth to generally be able to offer review except in those areas I maintain. I have separated the patches into areas maintained by David, Andrew, and Alice + Danilo, so each can take the patches relevant to the subsystems, for convenience. Apologies for doing this, but given the current trends I'd like to do something to make my inbox a little more manageable :)" Lorenzo has been a longtime contributor to the Linux memory management code and also author of the book The Linux Memory Manager.

Replies (7)

@Midnight1938@reddthat.com 2026-11-10 13:22

Why is it starting to feel like they will slopify the entire kernel?

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@Kajika@lemmy.ml 2026-11-10 13:33

Good… This is called karma. We needed a serious alternative since a long time ago anyway. Ensitification of the Linux Foundation hopefully will trigger the rise of a less fascist, maybe even antifascist, organisation.

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@JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2026-11-10 13:34

This is why I am downloading Debian 13 and its entire repository tonight (~500gb). I want to make sure I have a working copy archived.

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@karashta@sopuli.xyz 2026-11-10 14:31

Huh. Guess I’ll be looking even harder at switching to a BSD to escape the slop.

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@vandsjov@feddit.dk 2026-11-11 12:57

Hopefully, the amount of bugs/fixes will slow down, when “all” existing bugs and security issues has been found and fixed. Going forward, code will be AI checked, before it is pulled into the kernel, and minimise the amount of issues making it into the kernel.

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@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-11-11 15:38

Let’s see how many more things can be harmed by “AI”. It’s going great! Ban Anthropic’s IPO before they destroy the economy completely. daringfireball.net/…/gary-marcus-anthropic-ipo.pd…

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@CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 2026-11-11 18:20

AI found a bunch of security issues that up until now had not been found. Just because no one had found them doesn’t mean the security exposure wasn’t there. Talk about shooting the messenger (AI in this case). Lorenzo should ask himself why the vulnerabilities hadn’t been found until now.

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