Better to link to the site itself, or one of the reviews?<p>For an example of a review (picked pretty much at random) see: <a href="https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260318151256.2590375-1-andriy.shevchenko%40linux.intel.com" rel="nofollow">https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260318151256.2590375-1-andr...</a><p>The original patch series corresponding to that is: <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/3/18/1600" rel="nofollow">https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/3/18/1600</a><p>Edit: Here's a simpler and better example of a review: <a href="https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260318110848.2779003-1-lijun01%40kylinos.cn" rel="nofollow">https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260318110848.2779003-1-liju...</a><p>I'm very glad they're not spamming the mailing list.
That is both really useful and a great example of why they should have stopped writing code in C decades ago. <i>So many</i> kernel bugs have arisen from people adding early returns without thinking about the cleanup functions, a problem that many other language platforms handle automatically on scope exit.
Looks cool, but this site is a bit difficult for me to grok.<p>I think the table might be slightly inside-out? The Status column appears to show internal pipeline states ("Pending", "In Review") that really only matter to the system, while Findings are buried in the column on the far right. For example, one reviewed patchset with a critical and a high finding is just causally hanging out below the fold. I couldn't immediately find a way to filter or search for severe findings.<p>It might help to separate unreviewed patches from reviewed ones, and somehow wire the findings into the visual hierarchy better. Or perhaps I'm just off base and this is targeting a very specific Linux kernel community workflow/mindset.<p>Just my 1c.
I think this is a great and interesting project. However, I hope that they're not doing this to submit patches to the kernel. It would be much better to layer in additional tests to exploit bugs and defects for verification of existance/fixes.<p>(Also tests can be focused per defect.. which prevents overload)<p>From some of the changes I'm seeing: This looks like it's doing style and structure changes, which for a codebase this size is going to add drag to existing development. (I'm supportive of cleanups.. but done on an automated basis is a bad idea)<p>I.e. <a href="https://sashiko.dev/#/message/20260318170604.10254-1-erdemhuseyincan09%40gmail.com" rel="nofollow">https://sashiko.dev/#/message/20260318170604.10254-1-erdemhu...</a>
Style and structure is not the goal here, the reason people are interested in it is to find bugs.<p>Having said that, if it can save maintainers time it could be useful. It's worth slowing contribution down if it lets maintainers get more reviews done, since the kernel is bottlenecked much more on maintainer time than on contributor energy.<p>My experience with using the prototype is that it very rarely comments with "opinions" it only identifies functional issues. So when you get false positives it's usually of the form "the model doesn't understand the code" or "the model doesn't understand the context" rather than "I'm getting spammed with pointless advice about C programming preferences". This may be a subsystem-specific thing, as different areas of the codebase have different prompts. (May also be that my coding style happens to align with its "preferences").
No, it's reviewing patches posted on LKML and offering suggestions. The original patch posted corresponding to your link was this, which was (presumably!) written by a human:<p><a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/3/9/1631" rel="nofollow">https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/3/9/1631</a>
<a href="https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sashiko-dev/sashiko</a> (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427996">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427996</a>)
Now they want to kill the Linux kernel. :(<p>We've already seen how bug bounty projects were closed by AI spam; I think it was curl? Or some other project I don't remember right now.<p>I think AI tools should be required, by law, to verify that what they report is actually a true bug rather than some hypothetical, hallucinated context-dependent not-quite-a-real-bug bug.
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What's your concern?
well tbf code review is probably the most useful part of "AI coding", if it catches even a single bug you missed its worth it, plus false positives would waste dev time but not pollute the kernel
b2b or b2c? feels like it could go either way