How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?
Details
- External ID
- 47934926
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?
- Website domain
- assisted-by.dev
- Launched
- April 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- gpu compute and acceleration tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- analysis of ai contribution to linux kernel
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an exploratory static data visualization / dashboard showing analytics on the Linux kernel codebase, which can easily be generated via git log scripts and front-end charts.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Clanker fuzzers
Concerns raised: Generated summary lacks mailing list context, AI-assisted commits represent small proportion of kernel development
Feature requests: Include mailing list context in summaries
Competitors
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Launched 178 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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