Show HN: How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?
Three months into the Assisted-by: disclosure policy, 3,304 of 1,130,805 lines added to mainline came from disclosed-AI commits. 0.29% of insertions, 0.64% of commits. The verifiable floor.
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What the page does not show Merge rate (different humans use different tools for different patch types; the ratio is not a model quality signal). Submitted-versus-merged percentages (same reason). Authorial intent or motivation behind any tag string. Patches that landed without disclosure (this page measures policy compliance, not actual AI usage). Share of kernel-wide lines: GitHub's stats API refuses repos over 10k commits and computing diffstats from the partial clone would take hours; the AI-side line counts stand on their own.
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