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This article reports on Linus Torvalds utilizing Anthropic's Claude Code to resolve a specific performance bottleneck in the Linux kernel related to multi-core memory contention. The submission marks a significant shift from his previous skepticism, establishing AI as an integral tool for maintaining critical open-source infrastructure rather than just a productivity aid. This development highlights the growing integration of generative models into high-stakes systems programming and low-level optimization tasks.
Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now

Torvalds just released a set of patches, which were largely written with Anthropic’s Claude Code. These new patches address an unsolved memory cache slowdown problem when using multiple cores and processors. Linus Torvalds had been moving closer to favoring AI, and this was the final step toward embracing it for Linux development. It had to happen. Linus Torvalds announced to the world that he used AI to write code for the Linux kernel. Who’d thought it? Well, me for one. Over the last few years, I’ve seen Torvalds’ attitude change from skeptical to seeing AI as a useful…
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