Quoting Linus Torvalds
<blockquote cite="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c"><p>And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am.</p> <p>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.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">— <a href="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c">Linus Torvalds</a>, drm/xe: Don't hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/linus-torvalds">linus-torvalds</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/linux">linux</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming">ai-assisted-programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a></p>
A quote from Linus Torvalds
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Subscribe
22nd August 2026
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
Recent articles
Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code - 19th August 2026
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things - 16th August 2026
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face - 7th August 2026
This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd August 2026.
linus-torvalds 9
linux 50
ai 2,199
generative-ai 1,948
llms 1,915
ai-assisted-programming 403
Disclosures
Colophon
©
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026