Torvalds joked that AI made Linux 7.3-rc2 this big, and nobody checked
Linus Torvalds spent Sunday afternoon doing what he does most Sundays. The result was a Linux 7.3-rc2 that came in far heavier than the calendar says it should. He could not find a single cause for it. So he offered the one everybody reaches for.
“It might be just random,” he wrote in his rc2 announcement. “But we’ll obviously all blame it on AI, because whether that’s really the cause or not, it’s an easy thing to blame.” He closed the sentence with a winking emoticon. Earlier in the same post he called the release a “full fat” one. That is not how a second release candidate is supposed to read.
The shortlog attached to that announcement carries 615 commits from 292 contributors, by TNW’s count. Torvalds did not publish a figure himself. Nor did he offer a diagnosis. He noted only that “nothing looks particularly odd”. The joke...
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