Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1080162/

The kernel community (like many other free-software projects) has recently
seen a large influx of patches developed with the assistance of large
language models (LLMs). Those patches tend to come from developers who
were previously unknown to the community. At the moment, though, the
memory-management developers are evaluating two large patch sets, developed
with LLM assistance, that were submitted by established and well-respected
developers. The rather different reception accorded to that work may give
insights into how LLM-generated contributions will be handled going
forward.