On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 09:44:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 09:25, Laurent Pinchart > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Mechanical transformations are often performed with Coccinelle. Given > > how you mention that tool below, I wouldn't frame it as out of scope > > here. > > Honestly, I think the documented rule should not aim to treat AI as > anything special at all, and literally just talk about tooling. > > I think we should treat any AI generated patches similarly: people > should mention the tool it was done with, and the script (ok, the > "scripts" are called "prompts", because AI is so "special") used. > > Sure, AI ends up making the result potentially much more subtle, but I > don't think the *issue* is new, and I don't think it should need to be > treated as such. The novelty here is that AI does not only transform the code, it can generate it from scratch en masse.
> Linus > -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
