Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs
2026-05-25 · r/technology
Linus Torvalds is fed up with AI-generated pull requests cluttering the Linux kernel, announcing he'll crack down on 'pointless' contributions — some courtesy of AI tools that apparently think they can just vibe-code their way into the world's most important open-source project. Turns out even AI can't escape Linus's legendary code review wrath.