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Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off

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Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off

The Decoder · Jul 17, 2026, 11:12 AM UTC

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has come out strongly in favor of AI tools in kernel development. "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects," he wrote on the kernel mailing list amid a debate over Sashiko, the Linux Foundation's AI-powered code review tool. Torvalds said he would "very loudly ignore" anyone who tries to talk others out of using it.…