You understand it less it sounds like. Race Conditions are common. This isn’t new to AI. Nobody talks about them though unless they lead to security issues (like with XFS, which had one for 10 years and only fixed recently). There is a lot happening in the kernel, its not always a matter of looking in one tiny location. It’s a race condition, and many things can trigger it, and the effects are diverse. A race condition doesn’t always mean a crash even. Patches get rejected all the time, for reasons including race conditions which are identified. If you check the post, other developers had tried and failed to fix the same issue. He’s not the only one. Optimisation is HARD Finally, you say “suggested it for submission”. That code would go to a staging repo first… Standard development tools (at least for my development work) wouldn’t catch race conditions (maybe commercial ones / high end ones would)… AI is actually far better at detecting these things This isn’t a unique or interesting story in any capacity…