Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
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Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
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Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#2Claude is just a tool ? The developers who merged that code and didn't properly test increased the bugs.
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#3Is there a non vibe coded fork of rsync?
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#4Claude is just a tool ? The developers who merged that code and didn't properly test increased the bugs.
"Did cars increase traveling deaths?"
"Cars are just a tool. The drivers who piloted the vehicles and weren't careful enough [are responsible for the deaths.]"
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#5I'm just curious about testing.
Is this a configuration that's not common and thus not tested?
If people think they can do better, I want to see their forks and them keeping up with it.
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/graphs/contributors?fr...
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#6[stub for offtopicness] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416020 for how all this happened in the first place]
This article is unfortunately unreadable because all of the prose is unfiltered LLM slop.
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#7[stub for offtopicness] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416020 for how all this happened in the first place]
> A simple distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data. No model. No assumptions. Just placement.
If you want me to read your analysis, you are going to have to make it not read like Claude wrote it. What does "placement" even mean here?
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#8[stub for offtopicness] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416020 for how all this happened in the first place]
This article reeks of LLM "assistance" at the very least.
Please, why can't people write stuff by hand themselves any more? It's a good analysis but how can I trust it without reviewing everything myself?!
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#9Claude is just a tool ? The developers who merged that code and didn't properly test increased the bugs.
This tool is claimed to be able to find and fix bugs.
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#10[stub for offtopicness] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416020 for how all this happened in the first place]
Some notes on this:
- I used GLM 5.1 to help with the coding and math for this.
- However, I explicitly dictated where the data should be pulled from (GitHub, Bugzilla, mailing list), how it should be tagged and grouped, and what data to look at (e.g. bugs instead of regressions)
- Additionally, I consulted with my wife, who has a master's degree in statistics from Penn State University for what sort of statistical methodology would be justified for this very limited data set, while still giving as much information as possible.
- I know the website looks like we stereotypically consider vibe-coded websites to look, but I actually explicitly asked for that. The original HTML design looked like a website from 1995, and I just prefer how this looks. It's pretty!