Re: sysbot AI patches and wireless

Hi Johannes,

Thanks for reaching out!

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 9:57 AM Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > See https://goo.gle/syzbot-ai-patches for information about AI-generated patches.
> > You can comment on the patch as usual, syzbot will try to address
> > the comments and send a new version of the patch if necessary.
>
> I'm going to state, for the record, that I'm going to make judicious use
> of ability to ignore patches, and apply it to pretty much all syzbot-AI-
> generated patches unless a 3-second review says "obviously right".
>
> In particular, I will absolutely *not* "comment on the patches as usual"
> and argue with an LLM that can bullshit out code faster than another
> computer can even deliver it to me by email.

Some clarifications to prevent misunderstanding:

1. Every AI-generated patch sent by syzbot has been pre-reviewed and
approved by a human engineer. The person who approved the patch is
listed in the From: and Signed-off-by: fields.
You can see this pre-review process on our moderation mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-upstream-moderation/search?q=patch%20wireless

2. For the patches already sent to LKML, the bot *does not* send
automatic replies and *does not* automatically submit newer versions.
Once the patch is on LKML, follow-ups, comments, and iterations are
handled entirely by the human developer who signed off on it, so you
have not been interacting with an LLM.

I apologize for the frustration this may have caused. We'll stop
sending AI-assisted patches to the wireless subsystem.

-- 
Aleksandr

>
> Whoever is currently pretending to be the human in the loop *absolutely*
> needs to think about the patches, and if that's happening it's probably
> no longer an AI-generated-sent-by-syzbot but you're going to rewrite it
> and send it properly.
>
> (IOW: get lost, syzbot)
>
> johannes
>