US AI Blocked by Safety, Chinese AI Finds Kernel Bug

While debugging a ripgrep segfault, a developer discovered a rare Linux kernel TLB-shootdown race condition. US AI models refused to help due to safety filters, but a Chinese open-source AI model successfully identified the bug.

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