Re: [PATCH 2/2] hpet: Add HPET-based NMI watchdog support

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, Feb 03 2026 at 23:13, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2026-02-03 at 21:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 03 2026 at 17:43, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> > Honestly, even when I've explicitly told Kiro three times *not* to do
>> > something, *and* implemented a git commit hook to catch it out, it has
>> > a tendency just to automatically override the commit hook!
>> 
>> Anarchic Intelligence :)
>> 
>> > If it was made of meat, I'd have stabbed it by now.
>> 
>> rm -rf solves that problem too once and forever.
>
> There *are* cases where it's actually an accelerating function,
> especially where there's a bunch of boilerplate/infrastructure code to
> be generated. But by $DEITY you have to keep a close eye on it. It has
> absolutely no taste whatsoever.
>
> And I've watched it spend quarter of an hour failing to use its own
> file read/write tools to edit C files, falling back to sed and then
> python scripts to make the simple changes it wanted to make. Sometimes
> needing to be prompted because it thought its sed script had worked
> when in fact it hadn't. It's... impressive :)

You clearly proved the point that this is accelerating the time and
energy waste.