Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI

Posted by bob on Aug 21, 2026 12:39 PM EDT
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It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him...

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