Linus Torvalds on Debugging the Kernel with AI

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +1200

And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work.

I’d like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.

I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am.

But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above.

Linux on Ju Lin's AI Weblog

Linus Torvalds on Debugging the Kernel with AI