So the kodane's algo is only useful when the maxsum is positive? What if the maxsum comes out to be negative

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So the kodane’s algo is only useful when the maxsum of subarrays is positive? What if the maxsum comes out to be negative.

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Yes the Kadane algorithm taught in the course will not work when all elements are negative.
In that case answer will simply be the least negative number.
You can refer this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxuK6A3SvTs

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