Linux Maintainers Are Ripping Out Drivers to Escape the Flood of AI-Generated Code
Kernel developers are removing hardware device drivers rather than deal with a deluge of low-quality LLM-generated submissions — an open-source tragedy of the commons playing out in real time.
A large number of hardware device drivers are being removed from the Linux kernel, and the reason is not obsolescence — it is that kernel developers do not want to deal with the flood of AI-generated code submissions, according to @JureUrsic, citing a Lunduke Journal report. Drivers for mice, Ethernet controllers, and other peripherals are reportedly on the chopping block.
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