Show HN: How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?(assisted-by.dev)
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Show HN: How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?
https://assisted-by.dev/
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Good call, I did try to search for it but must have missed it. Updated the page, Thanks for catching it.
Built this after the kernel's Assisted-by: tag policy landed earlier this year. Three numbers I wanted to see:
Source: https://github.com/snek-git/assisted-by
Built with Claude Code.
Three things I deliberately don't show, with reasons documented: merge rate per vendor (different humans use different tools for different patch types, the ratio is not a model quality signal), motivation behind any specific tag string, and patches that landed without disclosure (this measures policy compliance, not actual AI usage).
- by commits: 166 of 26,044 mainline commits since 2026-01-01 (0.64%)
- by new code: 3,304 of 1,130,805 lines added (0.29%)
- against the entire 42.5M-line kernel: 78 parts per million
Source: https://github.com/snek-git/assisted-by
Built with Claude Code.
Three things I deliberately don't show, with reasons documented: merge rate per vendor (different humans use different tools for different patch types, the ratio is not a model quality signal), motivation behind any specific tag string, and patches that landed without disclosure (this measures policy compliance, not actual AI usage).
Well, we have Linus as an omnipotent dictator, but looks cool anyway :P
Looks interesting!
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clanker-T1000-AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max for some context