--- title: Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against... description: Johannes Berg, maintainer of Linux kernel wireless networking subsystems (802.11, mac80211, WWAN, rfkill), has announced a strict new policy for handling... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-wireless-maintainer-takes-firm-stance-against-ai-llm-generated-slop-patches-lfptbcekj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches | daily.dev og:description: Johannes Berg, maintainer of Linux kernel wireless networking subsystems (802.11, mac80211, WWAN, rfkill), has announced a strict new policy for handling... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-wireless-maintainer-takes-firm-stance-against-ai-llm-generated-slop-patches-lfptbcekj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LFpTbCEKj.png og:image:alt: Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Johannes Berg, maintainer of Linux kernel wireless networking subsystems (802.11, mac80211, WWAN, rfkill), has announced a strict new policy for handling AI/LLM-generated patches. Any patch that doesn't pass a "three second review" as obviously correct will be ignored outright. He refuses to engage in back-and-forth with LLM-generated code, arguing that human contributors must genuinely understand the semantics of the code before submitting patches. In response, Syzbot — which pre-reviews AI patches with a human in the loop — has been disabled from sending AI-assisted patches to the wireless subsystem. Berg's core concern is scalability: AI-generated targeted fixes often ignore broader code architecture, creating long-term maintenance burdens and consuming reviewer bandwidth. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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