Linus Torvalds just fixed a Linux kernel bug that AI told him was impossible to solve.
Torvalds rarely writes kernel patches himself anymore. This time he did.
The bug lived in the Intel Xe graphics driver. On certain hardware it caused the display manager to endlessly restart, over and over.
He called in AI to help track it down. In his own words: "This was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work."
Then came the twist.
"The AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it."
He did not accept that answer.
"I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am."
He kept pushing. The AI kept working, adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully every time he pushed back.
24 patches. 18 kernel boots.
The actual fix, once they finally found it, was one line. A "round_up()" that needed to be a "round_down()."
Torvalds gave the AI credit and let it write the final commit message itself.
Even AI is not allowed to give up around Linus Torvalds.
Source: https://t.co/rcNGou51fn