When someone fixes an issue or adds a feature, you appreciate it.
Until you have to maintain it.
Then you start asking: “Could you please send this upstream?”
A lot of contributors optimize for solving their own problem, then leave the maintenance burden to someone else.
Don’t be that contributor. Think beyond “it works.” Make the change maintainable.
LLMs make it easy to generate code that works. The hard part is generating code you’ll still want to maintain a year from now.
#LinuxKernel
David Heidelberg
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