Linus Torvalds works on Linux kernel improvement with Claude Code

Linus Torvalds is working on a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Anthropic's AI coding tool Claude Code, indicating AI coding assistants are being adopted in core open-source projects; discussion appeared on Hacker News.

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