Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race.
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Linux creator and longtime lead maintainer Linus Torvalds turned to Anthropic’s Claude Code to tackle a kernel performance problem that The post Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race. appeared first on The New Stack .