Linus Torvalds on the AI claim that makes him angry, and what security researchers should never do
- May 23
- 1 min read
ZD NET — "In the last six months, we've seen a lot more commits," Torvalds noted, estimating that "the last two releases, it's been about 20% more commits than we had in the previous releases over many years."
Initially, Torvalds misread the spike as excitement around a major version change: "At first I thought, 'hey, people are excited about the 7.0 release because I changed the major number every once in a while…' and it turns out I was wrong.
The real change that happened in the last six months was that the AI tools actually got good enough for a lot of people... we're seeing a definite uptick in just development on pretty much all fronts."
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