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

[Gregory Price]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 06:42:49PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 12:40:16PM -0500, Gregory Price wrote:
> >
> > mm gets everything
> > mm-review is curated from mm to reduce noise
> >
> > Maybe would have to leverage a model though to surface critical things.
> >
> > Just an idea.
> 
> No I don't want slop going anywhere, at all. Nothing.
> 
> If you slop the reward should be silence ideally. And certainly not anything you
> slopped going to any kind of branch... :)
> 
> The slopularity is upon is Gregory. Behold the desert of the real etc.
>

I understand the sentiment, but then we have to reduce this to practice.

And unfortunately, I'm about 99% sure that identifying slop is rapidly
going to approach undecidability.  We're lucky it still emits em-dashes.

Unless we plan on converting the list to semi-public (which feels the
anti-thesis of Linux), i'm not sure how you get there from here.

So the risk is - do you over-bury and make it invisible, knowing we'll
miss legitimate bugs and fixes - or do you do something (anything) that
helps you ignore it while still being inspectable and curated.

And burning tokens to fight tokens is just blatantly a losing battle.

~Gregory