How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?
Three months after the Linux kernel started requiring an Assisted-by: tag, 166 of 26,044 mainline commits carry one. 0.64% of activity. One model dominates. Data from torvalds/linux and lore.kernel.org.
How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI? launched on April 28, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,409 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Shallow clone of torvalds/linux with --shallow-since="2026-01-01" , then git log --all --grep="Assisted-by:" -i . Each merged commit and each Assisted-by: line counted directly. Denominator is git log --since=2026-01-01 --oneline | wc -l on the same clone. Submissions to lkml and subsystem lists pulled with lei from lore.kernel.org/all : lei q -d mid -f mboxrd 'b:"Assisted-by:" AND d:20260101..' . Replies, cover letters (0/N), and bot accounts (Patchwork, kernel test robot, syzbot, 0day) are dropped. Patch series respins (v1, v2, v3) collapse to one entry per (canonical subject, sender). The Assisted-by: line must appear in non-quoted body text. Each tag string is parsed into {vendor,…from assisted-by.dev
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