Linux 7.2 ships AI-enriched scheduling as maintainer calls AI-assisted review "the new normal"
CackleRooster · reddit · 2026-08-18
Linux 7.2's seventh release candidate introduces cache-aware scheduling and more. The maintainer admitted he isn't thrilled by the sheer size of the release, but called it "the new normal": many fixes now come from review by various AI tools. Notably, most of these changes aren't AI-written features but patches for AI-discovered security vulnerabilities.
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