AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation

Posted by bob on Sep 9, 2026 7:37 AM EDT
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An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...

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