Linus Torvalds Tells AI Coding Critics in Linux: 'Fork It or Walk Away'

In a recent Linux kernel mailing list post, Linus Torvalds firmly stated that Linux is not an anti-AI project, telling critics of AI-powered coding tools to either fork the project or walk away. The discussion centered on Sashiko, an agentic code review system that independently finds 53.6% of bugs in tests but generates false positives at a rate within 20%. Despite the potential for wasted maintainer time from false reports, Torvalds declared his absolute support for using AI tools to improve the long-standing open-source kernel.