Distilling Linus Torvalds' code review style into a Skill from 32k kernel emails
Mte90 · reddit · 2026-09-10
A follow-up report on distilling Linus Torvalds' code review knowledge from 32k mailing list emails into an LLM Skill. The author shares a reproducible pipeline, the Soul.md file (profanities intact), four Skill/Soul versions generated by four different LLMs, and before/after comparisons of code reviews with and without the skill.
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