Sashiko is a Rust-based AI code review tool for the Linux kernel that caught 53% of bugs from 1,000 recent upstream issues — all of which were missed by human reviewers. Built by Google's Roman Gushchin, it ingests patches from mailing lists and uses LLMs (primarily Gemini Pro 3.1, also supports Claude) to give feedback to maintainers, with a false positive rate under 20%. Google is currently funding the LLM costs for the Linux Kernel Mailing List, positioning this as a scalable solution to the growing review burden on open source maintainers.
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Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss
Google-backed Sashiko catches 53% of kernel bugs that human reviewers miss, positioning AI code review as critical infrastructure for Linux maintenance with <20% false positives.
Saturday, March 21, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline
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