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No, that's usually to decrease the number of bugs and vulnerabilities.
Does an AI rewrite in Rust cancel out?
If you feel like they do owe you something, that's only because years of habit -- years of using other people's software for free, and having the good fortune of finding it generally to improve in quality over time -- has caused your baseline to drift from the true state of affairs, which is that nobody whose software you use for free owes you anything.
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Aren’t LLMs notorious for just making tests pass and not actually testing functionality?
I’ve never seen Claude do that. It makes the new tests pass by fixing previously unknown bugs in my experience.
Just use openrsync instead. And OpenBSD for that matter. There goes the bazar…
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No, that's usually to decrease the number of bugs and vulnerabilities.
Does an AI rewrite in Rust cancel out?
How that translates to the number of bugs, I don't know.
I would think that existing bugs would be caught, but new bugs would be introduced. The problem remains, but at least it has a new name now.
This is the third thread I've read on HN about the subject and I've sadly seen a lot of closeminded or shallow comments on each thread. Adding the above reminder, as I hope HN can engage in more thoughtful discussion.