Linux kernel maintainer says Al has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better"

No they don’t. AI is not a tool. A tradespersons wields a tool. AI just has them point it in a general direction and then it does it “for” them, but also fills it with shitty bugs they either have to go back and remove, which ends up taking even more time, or they miss it entirely, which leads to broken code, or they just ship it and don’t give a fuck.