Linus Torvalds sees signs AI-prompted patch flood has peaked

The worst of the patchpocalypse may be behind us, according to Linus Torvalds. Writing in his weekly kernel update post, the Linux kernel dev leader delivered Linux 7.4 rc2 – the second rough cut of the next kernel – which he rated as a big release for two reasons.

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