Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now

ZDNET’s key takeaways

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…