Linux memory management expert Lorenzo Stoakes at Arm who has been contributing to the kernel since 2014 is stepping away from some reviewership roles within the Linux kernel due to all of the noise from the flood of kernel patches resulting fro AI/LLMs.
Lorenzo announced today he is stepping away as a reviewer for the memory management (MM), core, misc, and Rust areas due to all the noise caused by AI. Lorenzo will continue serving as maintainer for areas of the kernel he oversees but is looking to lighten his load due to the increased patch burden in 2026.
Lorenzo commented in the patch series removing himself as reviewer for those areas of the kernel:
"Given the current throughput in the kernel resulting from AI-generated series, I unfortunately lack the bandwidth to generally be able to offer review except in those areas I maintain.
I have separated the patches into areas maintained by David, Andrew, and Alice + Danilo, so each can take the patches relevant to the subsystems, for convenience.
Apologies for doing this, but given the current trends I'd like to do something to make my inbox a little more manageable :)"
Lorenzo has been a longtime contributor to the Linux memory management code and also author of the book The Linux Memory Manager.
Why is it starting to feel like they will slopify the entire kernel?
Because they are…and Linus set it in motion by acting like LLM code slop is the way forward for linux.
Lil kids, noobs, need to be taught to stop idolize guys like Greg and Linus, they went corporate and became evil.
They’re not evil, and “went corporate” is a vague and meaningless jab.
Dont idolize people is generally good advice though. I think these guys’ problem is that they’re old and jaded, and should’ve stepped down long ago. If there’s no one fit to take their place, that’s a reflection of their failure as leaders.
First step in licence laundering
This is why I am downloading Debian 13 and its entire repository tonight (~500gb). I want to make sure I have a working copy archived.
Where can I find the entire repository? Can find all the pakkages butt no “download all”
Huh. Guess I’ll be looking even harder at switching to a BSD to escape the slop.
Good… This is called karma.
We needed a serious alternative since a long time ago anyway. Enshitification of the Linux Foundation hopefully will trigger the rise of a less fascist, maybe even antifascist, organisation.
The Linux Foundation is the enshitification itself.
We need that new organization however I wouldn’t know where to look right know: the FSF is full of libertarians. It’s a miracle that they created the GPLs. And the *BSDs are even worse.
We’re in a dire need of something not tainted by braindead American ideologies.
Agreed, this is a kind of hegemony in which I grew up with the FSF and GNU being the good guys and the best we have so I can’t imaging better.
To their credit they exist and their contribution is the best we have so far. Despite full of engineers the western communist movements can’t build anything. So W for the libertarians for that one. For now.
Can you explain what the karma is here? I’m not familiar / don’t have the context you’re referring to
It would be cool to see something like Plan9 get attention or a modern revamp. The idea is super cool, IIRC it didn’t catch on because it wasn’t a compelling enough improvement on Unix for people to switch.
