(Image credit: Greg Kroah-Hartman via Mastodon) Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel's stable branch maintainer, who is widely regarded as second only to Linus Torvalds in the project's hierarchy, posted a photo to Mastodon on Friday showing the hardware behind his AI-assisted bug-finding tool, dubbed a "clanker." The setup, which Kroah-Hartman has dubbed "gkh_clanker_t1000," is a Framework Desktop powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" processor, running a local large language model to hunt down kernel bugs without relying on any cloud infrastructure, as first reported by Phoronix . Article continues below The tool doesn’t write kernel code but instead acts as a fuzzer, bombarding code with unexpected inputs to expose crashes, memory errors, and other latent bugs. Kroah-Hartman then reviews what it finds, writes fixes, and takes full responsibility for the submitted patches.…