Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
2026-05-18 · r/technology
AI bug hunters are flooding the Linux security mailing list with so much noise that Linus Torvalds himself says it's become 'almost entirely unmanageable.' Congrats, AI — you've managed to make open-source security worse by drowning real vulnerabilities in a sea of automated garbage. Nothing says 'helpful technology' like breaking the workflow of the world's most important operating system kernel.