« Linux creator and longtime lead maintainer Linus Torvalds turned to Anthropic’s Claude Code to tackle a kernel performance problem that developers have struggled with for more than two years. On Tuesday, he submitted a 10-patch series that delivered a 23-fold throughput improvement in a synthetic benchmark running on his Ryzen Threadripper.
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Reviewers have since identified a race condition and raised concerns about memory reclamation. Torvalds has handed further development to Kiryl Shutsemau, a Linux kernel developer who previously worked on the same bottleneck. »
"Here's 10 PRs of workslop, someone else go fix it."
« Torvalds said the assistant wrote the implementation, tests, and initial documentation, and reviewed the code under his direction. »
So apparently he's already given up on "I'm reviewing all the code".
https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-claude-code-kernel/