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[Discuss] With AI, 2, 000 Vulnerabilities per Linux kernel release



On Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:34:44 +0000
"Randall Rose" <rrose at pobox.com> wrote:

[snip]

There are a finite number of bugs in any given proposed kernel release.
If tools find 2000 of them, and they are remediated, then there are
2000 fewer bugs in that release. It's a zero-sum game, or a close
approximation, where Team LLM Apocalypse steadily loses as the number
of discovered and discoverable bugs goes down.

New code will introduce new bugs. It's still a zero-sum game: the
number of new bugs introduced in new code is finite. These bugs will be
discovered, fixed, and number go down.

But like I wrote last night, "number go down" doesn't draw the clicks
and the ad revenue.

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