[$] BPF in the agentic era (lwn.net)
<p>
Alexei Starovoitov gave "<q>less of a presentation, more of a scream of
realization</q>" at the BPF track of the 2026
<a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/">
Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit</a>. He shared a set of ideas for how BPF could
change to avoid being swept away by the sea-change in programming represented by modern
large language models (LLMs) and the coding agents based on them.
In a follow-up session, the discussion covered
more problems with how coding agents use tools like bpftrace, and the current deluge of
patches in need of review in the BPF subsystem.
</p>
Alexei Starovoitov gave "<q>less of a presentation, more of a scream of
realization</q>" at the BPF track of the 2026
<a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/">
Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit</a>. He shared a set of ideas for how BPF could
change to avoid being swept away by the sea-change in programming represented by modern
large language models (LLMs) and the coding agents based on them.
In a follow-up session, the discussion covered
more problems with how coding agents use tools like bpftrace, and the current deluge of
patches in need of review in the BPF subsystem.
</p>
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