They're probably commenting on Linus Torvald's decision to accept commits that may or may not have been assisted with agentic coding in part or whole, getting accepted/rejected on a merit basis instead.

(Apparently that's too much gray area for some zealots)

Are they in the room with us right now?

Sure:

  (git ls-files; git log --grep='^Assisted-by: ' --pretty='format:' --stat --name-only | sort | uniq) | sort | uniq --repeated

...will show you the names of all 6,251 tainted files. You can `git blame` them at your leisure.

"tainted". Can you point to something in any of those 6251 files that is "slop"?

Linus himself recently worked on a cache contention issue and used AI to assist.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-p...

Looks like quality code, not slop.