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Comment by ceejayoz

6 hours ago

Is your belief that Linus never had a bug caught in code review prior to Claude?

Why would that be your conclusion?

  • "introduced a data race bug in the kernel unbeknownst to himself but this bug was caught by other reviewer […therefore] Linus himself did not understand the changes Claude made to the code he submitted in the mailing list"

    What other reading of this is there? A bug is being cited as evidence of slop generation, which implies pre-AI the bug would not have happened.

    • You extrapolated from a single instance where something did happen to an entirely different thing never happening as a position the original poster might have held, whereas it is 100% obvious that that would not be the case.

      That effectively makes it a strawman argument.

      We are talking about this bug, in this context. Not about pre-AI bugs that did happen and that also were caught (and then there is of course all the ones that were not caught).

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