“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that they can do the open-source thing and fork it.”
Torvalds called 90 percent of AI hype in 2024. Now he is telling contributors who object to agentic kernel review to walk away. The trigger was Sashiko, whose creators claim it independently finds 53.6 percent of bugs that humans later fix, a number from its own authors that nobody outside has checked. “Fork it” is a real answer in open source, but it is also the answer you give when you have stopped arguing the technical merits.