Re: [RFC 0/2] Add AI coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jul 28 2025 - 12:41:15 EST




On July 28, 2025 8:57:21 AM PDT, dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Kees Cook wrote:
>> Having had to do "find all commits from [set of authors]" research for
>> security audits, I would be very unhappy if I had to do this again in
>> the future for a specific Agent (used any author), and had to loop lore
>> into the process. Yes, it's *doable*, but it'd be very annoying.
> [...]
>So "doable, but very annoying" strikes me as a problem space where an AI
>agent could help. It is not clear to me that a concise commit trailer
>captures everything needed to help both the review and after the fact
>forensics problem, especially when model fine tuning and prompting are
>in play.

Heh, good point. :) We can make all problems *with* agents and problem *for* agents. :P

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Kees Cook