> Early-2025 AI

This one especially really just shows they are cherry picking things which support a particular position regardless of the relevance, the difference between Early-2025 AI and Late-2026 AI is absolutely massive. Early 2026 it was reported by Greg Kroah-Hartman that AI bug reports rapidly went from obviously wrong or low quality to being real reports.[0] The kernel now has AI tooling heavily integrated into patch review workflows as well with quite good results.[1]

> They have plenty of reasons not to.

Not really any good reasons however.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/26/linux-kernel...

[1] https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko

> the difference between Early-2025 AI and Late-2026 AI is absolutely massive

No. No it is not, despite how many times AI proponents like to claim it is.