ZDNET’s key takeaways

Torvalds just released a set of patches largely written with Anthropic’s Claude Code.

The patches address a memory cache slowdown problem when using multiple cores and processors.

This was Torvalds’ latest step toward embracing AI for Linux development.

It had to happen. Linus Torvalds announced to the world that he used AI to write code for the Linux kernel. Who’d thought it? Well, me for one. Over the last few years, I’ve seen Torvalds’ attitude change from skeptical to seeing AI as a useful tool for programmers and maintainers.

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In his Git submission , he wrote, “The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding assistant (Claude Code) under my direction.”

Tackling a shared-memory bottleneck

Specifically, the fix addresses contention in Linux’s page cache, which holds file data in memory.…