Rust will save Linux from AI, says Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Now that doesn't mean Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman thinks Rust is magic.
  • Rust will save Linux from C’s inherent security weaknesses.
  • Linux, faced with a flood of AI-discovered security problems, could use the help.
  • Going forward, more and more Linux code will be written in Rust.
  • Avicenna@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    A better title than previous, not sure I agree though. Not that I don’t think it wouldn’t improve memory safety. It is that LLMs can keep finding bugs on even a clean code base practically forever. Yeah they may not be critical bugs like those which are technically correct but makes you roll your eyes like you would on an intern that is trying a bit too much to impress. Infact if you incentivise the LLM enough, it will likely produce fake bugs. So better memory safety won’t stop some people dumping pages of LLM bug reports.