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title: Quoting Linus Torvalds
link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/linus-torvalds/
source: simon-willison
published: 2026-08-22T21:04:26Z
updated: 2026-08-22T21:04:26Z
first_seen: 2026-09-02T14:07:29.769486161Z
tags:
- linus-torvalds
- linux
- generative-ai
- ai-assisted-programming
- ai
- llms
summary: 'And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I''d like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am. But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above. — Linus Torvalds, drm/xe: Don''t hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM Tags: linus-torvalds, linux, generative-ai, ai-assisted-programming, ai, llms'
content: feed
html: 2026-08-22-quoting-linus-torvalds.html
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> And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work.
>
> I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.
>
> I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am.
>
> But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above.

— [Linus Torvalds](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c), drm/xe: Don't hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM

Tags: [linus-torvalds](https://simonwillison.net/tags/linus-torvalds), [linux](https://simonwillison.net/tags/linux), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [ai-assisted-programming](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms)