AI slop (was Re: [PATCH] mm/huge_memory: let special huge VMAs bypass the THP) policy check

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

-cc some people to make it clear this is a general point not aimed at
anybody in particular.

On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 01:45:17PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 04:47:07PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> > Just to be clear: Unchecked AI slop in any form is making my life
> > worse every day.
>
> I think eveyone's life who contributes reguarly to the kernel.. The
> only ones who seem to benifit are people doing drive by patches!

And they shouldn't - we should make sure that nobody doing this can
benefit.

This is why I've revised my 'I will never take somebody's patch from them
and do it myself' policy.

If you do AI slop I will ALWAYS do this (if your AI has found a real issue
and if I am able to without burning out) or just say no and push it to a
TODO.

>
> There is so much more harder work on the maintainer side, and it is
> now even harder to get patches picked up on the submitter side.

Yup it's all awful.

>
> Yet responsible use of AI seems genuinely helpful and quality improving :\

Yes and I use it daily. It's really helpful when kept on a short leash...

We're going to have to move to a trust model eventually IMO where random
new people just don't get to apply anything until they build trust with
smaller changes (and with measures for established people who start
sloppping).

It sucks but it's the only workable solution IMO.

>
> Jason

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Cheers, Lorenzo