{
  "id": 6357483,
  "title": "AI Made A Lot Of \"Hideous\" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/ai-made-a-lot-of-hideous-code-but-found-major-bottlenecks-for-faster",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-09T00:49:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-To-Faster-Linux-Kernel-Comp"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to \"significant speed up\" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated \"a lot of code, much of it hideous\" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "AI helped a Linux developer find bottlenecks in the kernel, but the code it made to fix it was \"hideous\"",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/ai-helped-a-linux-developer-find-bottlenecks-in-the-kernel-but-the",
        "published": "2026-09-09T04:29:28.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}